Reid, Criticized Over ‘Negro Dialect’ Comment, Gets Support from AG
Attorney General Eric Holder says he has no doubts about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, despite racial remarks he made about Barack Obama during the presidential campaign.
Reid was quoted in a recent book as saying Obama is a light-skinned African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Reid told the Associated Press that he supports Reid. “He’s a good man who has done an awful lot in his leadership position to advance the rights of people of color in this country, and he’s a good guy who I admire a great deal,” Holder said.
Holder said Reid’s remarks were unfortunate because of the controversy they caused. “I don’t think that there is a prejudiced bone in his body,” Holder told AP.
Holder is the nation’s first black attorney general.
