The book Game Change caused quite a stir when it reported that Senator Harry Reid referred to then Senator Obama as a “light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted one.” The statement was called insensitive and even racist. His detractors called for his resignation.
More interesting is that the outcry was not from the black community. Few objected publicly. In fact, some of the most prominent African Americans in the country supported Reid, an unlikely outcome you ...