Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has been criticized for making insensitive racial remarks about President Barack Obama during the Presidential campaign.
He used an archaic term but he was describing a sort of, kind of realpolitik of race in America.!
Joe Biden's Six Decades of Racism
In his run for president, Joe Biden is being heralded as a champion for equality and racial justice, but his long career in politics directly contradicts this, as it has been marked and ultimately defined by six straight decades of segregationist policies, hostility towards minority communities, and outright racism.
After he was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at the age of 30, Biden abruptly changed course on an issue on which he had campaigned: School integration through busing.
Biden joined with the segregationist bloc of the Democratic caucus and actively worked to oppose school busing.
“I think the concept of busing … that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride,” he told National Public Radio in 1975.
“[Desegregation] is a rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is b