Saturday, March 5, 2011

Barbour defends comments on race

Tue Dec 21, 12:03 pm ET
Barbour defends comments on race, but is the damage done to his potential 2012 bid?
By Holly Bailey

To make matters worse, Politico's Ben Smith dug up a quote from a Barbour profile in the New York Times from 1982 in which Barbour warned an aide about making racist remarks with a questionable statement of his own. According to the Times, Barbour "warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."

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