Its not really surprising, Byrd got away with using the full blown N-word on Fox news and nothing happened to him. At this point,  Harry Reid could probably come out in blackface saying "mammy" without getting into trouble.

Shouldn't that statement of yours Steven tell you something?  Same Tired old?  As in how many times do we have to put up with this mess from the democrats before the rank and file get tired of their new masters and dump them?

But I guess sacraficing liberty for safety is part of the democrat platform these days.

But they are light years from the stone age.

You know what's really ridiculous, though? Black people do speak differently than whites,  and we're making an issue of how they don't; makiing a politician, like him or not, apologize for telling the truth. All because it's not PC. It's stupid.

Tell me you can't tell the difference--99 times out of 100--when you answer the phone, and hear the other person speak. You can usually tell black or white, just by the voice. I mean, even more, I don't know, "classy" blacks, like Maya Angelou, Bill Cosby, Thomas Sowell...you can tell.

The tonal quality, the cadence, certain vocal mannerisms....there is a difference. To deny it is wrong.

Call me a racist; I don't care. It's the truth. Saying there isn't is just plain PC, and PC is not logical; it's also oppression and censorship.

I have to disagree. I know plenty of blacks that sound like another person. Some people choose to use Ebonics which in my opinion is a lazy way of speaking. I'll ask you this though RW, have you sat and listened to young white kids lately? The rap culture and Ebonics are rubbing off on them more than good grammar and speech habits are. I is not kidding.

The thing I notice is the liberals keep ignoring the double-standard.  Is there anyone here that thinks if Reid was a republican this situation would be all over the media?

You all are so easily distracted. This has nothing to do with race, or being PC. those statements were released for one reason only. when Harry loses the election he and all the democrats will be able to scream that he was smeeared by the right. if not for our mean attacks he would have been re-elected in a landslide. THen they have justification to do the same and claim that they are only doing what we did. forget that they have been doing since Nixon was Vice-president.

It is strange that i have to tell people that i am black, because when they listen to me on the phone or read my words they assume i am white.

You really think Harry was playing Halperin as far back as that?  I suppose it's possible, but seems unlikely to me.

You're the 100th time.

I agree with Nitro.  Blacks speak differently between each other just as whites do.  A good ole boy from texas does not sound like a Yonker, nor does a black from Wall Street sound like one from the ghetto.  It is a matter of laziness as Nitro says, as well as region.  Walter E. Williams sounds very much philadelphia, and none like ebonics.

It will be nice when they just assume your are a southerner, or American, and your color is irrelevant.

To quote Stevendedalus.

I am not African-American, I am American. I don't like racial terms. it is one thing I learned way back in the 60's if you make yourself different you see differences. Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Japanese-Americans unite! Become American!

Bravo, I agree. I see myself as an American, I don't need to hyphenate myself.

I'm shocked, shocked at all this stereotyping.