With prominent political analysts now saying Harry Reid is likely to lose his re-election campaign, this probably wasn’t the press coverage Dingy Harry wanted.

“I don’t care who said it,” she told CNSNews.com. “It doesn’t matter to me. It’s still wrong. It’s outrageous to say that we are going to let a man have a position because he is light-skinned and he uses a Negro dialect when it is convenient.

“I think that’s terrible,” she said. “What he’s really saying is, ‘Now we have a White House Negro.’”

“A long time ago you had house Negros and field Negros. I don’t think people are seeing it that way,” King said in reference to terminology used during the time of American slavery. “Basically, what he is saying is, if you have light skin and a particular education, we’ll let you in the House. If not, you need to stay in the field. I’m sorry. That’s what I hear.”

That would be Alveda King, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece making those above comments.

You wouldn’t be hearing these comparisons had Reid not specifically used the term “negro”. But that’s the term he used, so comparisons like the type King made are understandable.