http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/09/harry-reid-negro-comment-_n_417406.html
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying
the race of Barack Obama – whom he described as a "light skinned"
African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one" –
would help rather than hurt his eventual presidential bid.
Obama quickly accepted, saying "As far as I am concerned, the book is
closed." Reid, facing a tough re-election bid this year, spent the day
telephoning civil rights leaders and fellow Democrats in hopes of
mitigating the political damage.
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