Answer: ALL, but in varying degree!

All men grew up during some of the most segregated years in American history.

Taking into account the fact that we are all a product of our experiences, it is easy to understand where each man is coming from — based on past remarks. Reid was simply speaking the truth — Racist or not. For, the white man (all over the world) has conditioned some light-skinned “people of color” to think that they are superior — “closer” to the white man, and some dark-skinned ones to feel inferior about themselves.

Colonial Europeans and the Anglo-Saxon land-grabbers in America operated in the same “Apartheid” mode.

Unfortunately, in the 21st century, many blacks have not shaken off this slave mentality and are still suffering from acute NEGRO NEGROPHOBIA: a psychoneurosis, a mental disorder — a conditioned response to white power and black powerlessness.

Professor Chinweizu opines: “Negro negrophobia makes black women bleach, till some proudly sport yellow monkey faces and ebony-black thighs. (or ‘Fanta Orange face and Coca-cola legs‘ as some call it). It makes black parents prefer their lighter skinned children to the darker skinned. It makes blacks who marry white or mulatto think they are marrying up and improving the race. It makes a pitch-black Sudanese proclaim himself Arab, on account of just one white Arab ancestor ten generations back; it makes him count as nothing, indeed as a blemish, all his 1,023 black ancestors in that generation, and all the millions before and since.” [ READ MORE ]

REID in 2008: Reid reportedly said that he “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate” like Obama who is “a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect.’”

CLINTON in 2008: “…..a few years ago this guy (Obama) would have been getting us coffee,” Clinton told the late Ted Kennedy, according to the book: Game Change — a comment that angered Kennedy, who later endorsed Obama.

LOTT in 2002: Lott declared that the U.S. “wouldn’t have had all these problems” if Strom Thurmond’s segregationist presidency campaign had been successful.

Which is worse?

Reid and Clinton, despite their flaws, have mostly been on the right side of civil rights over the years, while Trent Lott and his fellow Republican segregationists have always been on the wrong side — feasting on racial animosity to divide the country to win elections.

Reid’s intent was clear — he was genuinely praising Obama in a way any other sixty something old white man in America would, per his past experiences, having grown up in racism. Clinton’s was clear to — get a win for his wife at all costs. Given that he (Clinton) was a product of the deep south, racism flows naturally — when faced with the frustration delivered by a black man as formidable as Barack Obama. Bill probably never knew any other way to react to a black man “hanging” his white wife!

Trent Lott’s intent was pretty clear too — nostalgia for WHITE SUPREMACY and SLAVERY, a right-wing staple, a tea-party delusion and the bread and butter of Republican politics; the exploitation of racial fears.

One cannot compare a person who yearns for eternal racism, hangings and the malfeasance that come with segregation.

Therefore, I find it utterly despicable for the Republican hypocrites to be howling for Reid’s head (conveniently forgetting Clinton’s statements which are worse), and comparing old man Reid to the despicable racist-segregationist Trent Lott, who has a mile-long rap sheet of bigot politics.

Even more reprehensible is that the Republican pitchfork rampage towards Reid is being led by black RAT Uncle Michael Steele.!

Fuck You Steele. You are a disgrace! You cannot claim any credibility in race issues while you are aiding and abetting a party whose political platform stinks (a lot more than Democrats) of rotten racism and bigotry.

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Conservative media dubiously compare Reid’s controversial comments to Lott’s support of segregationist Thurmond

Sean KLANnity carefully avoids explaining why Lott’s remarks were offensive

Beckel attempts to explain to Hannity why Lott’s Thurmond comments were offensive

Fabricationist Extraordinaire Dick FAT Morris says Reid’s comments “indicate a level of personal bigotry that really is incredible… This is blatant bigotry” [ P/S Dick Was in Paris -- Eating French Fries ]

Limbaugh: Reid “was complimenting Obama as being able to hide his half-blackness; this is the way they look at it”

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