Obama Defends Harry Reid After His ‘Negro Dialect’ Comment

President Barack Obama came to the defense of Senate Majority leader Harry Reid who has received much criticism today over remarks he made about candidate Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign. In Game Change a book out today, Reid is said to have described Obama as “light-skinned appearance and speaking patterns with no negro dialect.” Obama said to CNN’s Roland Martin “This is a good man who has always been on the right side of history,” in an interview taped Monday for TV One.

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