The distance between the aspirations he raised and his record a year on is the distinction between the electoral and the political
Gary Younge, The Guardian/UK, January 17, 2010
You’ve got to feel sorry for the Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid. In 1995, when it seemed Colin Powell might run for president, Powell explained his appeal to white voters thus: “I speak reasonably well, like a white person”, and, visually, “I ain’t that black”.
More than a decade later, Reid said almost the same thing about Barack Obama, arguing that the presidential candidate owed his success in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and the fact that he spoke “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”.
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The distance between the aspirations he raised and his record a year on is the distinction between the electoral and the political
Gary Younge, The Guardian/UK, January 17, 2010
You’ve got to feel sorry for the Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid. In 1995, when it seemed Colin Powell might run for president, Powell explained his appeal to white voters thus: “I speak reasonably well, like a white person”, and, visually, “I ain’t that black”.
More than a decade later, Reid said almost the same thing about Barack Obama, arguing that the presidential candidate owed his success in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and the fact that he spoke “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”.
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