Reuters AlertNet - US Republicans call on Senator Reid to quit post: "WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Republican Party chief called on Senator Harry Reid on Sunday to step down as Senate majority leader over racial comments about President Barack Obama, while Democrats tried to put the issue behind them.
Reid, a key figure in pushing Obama's agenda through Congress, apologized to the president on Saturday over remarks published in a new book calling Obama a 'light-skinned' black man 'with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.'
Both Obama and Reid are Democrats.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Reid should step aside as Senate majority leader, saying if a Republican made the same remarks Democrats would be 'screaming for his head.'
'Oh yeah, there's a big double standard here,' Steele, who is black, said on the NBC program 'Meet the Press.'
'There is this standard where the Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it ... comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it's racism,' Steele added on 'Fox News Sunday.'"
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