IN SUPPORT OF SENATOR HARRY REID

Over the weekend, Senator Reid had to apologize to President Obama for writing that the President was only elected because he was light skinned...coupled with the fact that he did not speak the way typical Negroes spoke. All the so-called Civil Rights leaders opined on the matter and Political Correctness held sway in the media. The truth is that Senator Reid is correct in his assessment. There has always been a disparity in how the dark skinned blacks were treated as opposed to those that were light skinned. Be it here in the USA, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Trinidad and my very own birth place of Saint Kitts/Nevis--all these countries treat their light-skinned blacks better than those of a darker hue. In my country, it is not an official policy sanctioned by the authorities that there be deference afforded lighter hued blacks, it just is. I may even back up Senator Reid’s take by positing evidence. Look at those black beauties who have had interracial relationships on the silver screen-they all have had Halle Berry’s hue. The few black models who have adorn the cover of Sports Illustrated have all been light skinned; those who have been past Miss America, Miss Universe , etc, overwhelmingly have been light skinned. The naked truth is that it is not only the late Michael Jackson who bleached his skin-it has been a practice rampant among some darker hued blacks. During the OJ trial, even Time Magazine darkened OJ’s hue, so as to make him more ominous because the magazine rightly surmised that most people associated evil with darkness, which is replete in our literature. As to the speaking like a typical Negro–that too is true. Even the rapper" Snoop Dog," who gives credence to Ebonics, every time he is in court to defend his chronic use of Marijuana, does not have his expensive mouthpieces speak to the judge in Ebonics, but have them speak the Queen’s English or when he is allocuting, he too put the "fu-shizzle’ nonsense aside. It was why during the Inauguration of our First African American President, his daughters chose the Jonas Brothers to perform-instead of some rapper whose every couplet in his or her song would have had the word "bitch" or "ho." The Biblical Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun-Senator Reid should take heed that even in the Bible that Moses’ sister, Miriam, was mad at Moses for marrying an Ethiopian; ironically, God punished Miriam by cursing her with Leprosy for her prejudice.

-Verily Prime