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January 11, 2010

GOP Calls for Reid to Resign over Race Comments
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Republican Party Chair Michael Steele is calling on Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid to step down over racial remarks Reid made about
Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. A new book reveals
that in private conversation Reid said the country was ready to embrace
a black candidate in part because Obama was a “light-skinned” African
American with “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Harry
Reid has apologized to Obama. In a statement, Obama said, “As far as I
am concerned, the book is closed.”



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