Eugene Kane: 'Honest Injun' and Harry Reid

Of course, Eugene Kane is weighing in on the Harry Reid controversy.

Of course, Kane is serving as an apologist for Reid.

Do you think Kane would have had a problem with the people at Bayshore if they had complained about "hundreds of juveniles gathering using obscene and threatening language" in a NEGRO DIALECT?

I do.

After Kane defends Reid's remarks, he assaults Michael Steele.

Kane writes:

The people calling for Reid's head are off-base because most of them don't really understand how racism works or what it means. If they did, maybe they would be criticizing their own GOP head - Michael Steele - who recently offended Native Americans with his "honest Injun" comment.

Now, that's offensive.

"Honest Injun" is really offensive?

Did Kane go off on Steve Kagen when he used the term "injun time"?

From WisPolitics:

Dem 8th CD candidate Steve Kagen apologized today for apparently saying he was on "injun time" to describe his reason for arriving late to a forum.

According to a recording of the remarks, Kagen opened by introducing a staff member.

"I want to thank you for driving me around the district this morning. I really appreciate you getting me here almost on time," he says to laughter. "Our excuse, uh, in Oneida was, well we are on injun time. They don't tell time by the clock. Our excuse here is I'm a doctor and we're never on time."

Looks like Kane should have condemned DEMOCRAT Steve Kagen.

If he didn't, one certainly could say, "Now, that's hypocritical."
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Patrick McIlheran gets to the heart of the Reid "light-skinned," "Negro dialect" controversy: It isn't Barack Obama who should be accepting the apology.

[C]onsider what Reid was saying: That because Obama’s skin wasn’t so dark and because of how he spoke, he’d go far for the party. He’d be marketable. He’d go over well with the American voter.

In short, Reid was presuming that the electorate consists of bigots who’d be put off by a darker skin or a stronger accent. He presumed racism, in other words, and presumed not merely that it exists (as it does in ever smaller and more disreputable corners of American society) but that racism is dominant, widespread, an affliction that rules politics.

What a crabbed, cynical view of America, and we see how it poisoned Reid’s politics. Yes, Reid owes some apologies: To the several hundred million Americans who are not racists and who Reid, nonetheless, accused of racism.