Reid to Obama: Sorry for ‘no Negro dialect’ remark (AP)

January 9, 2010 7:41 pm | politics

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2006, file photo Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, joined by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, prepares to outline the Democrat agenda for reform in the wake of the scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, at the Library of Congress in Washington.  Reid apologized Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, to President Barack Obama  for comments he made about Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid, which are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign titled 'Game Change'. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP – Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying Barack Obama should seek — and could win — the White House because Obama was a “light skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”


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