"warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks.'"I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. He was drawing upon the language he knew the racist would understand. Either he was telling him to stop making racist remarks or he was making fun of liberals outside of hearing range of blacks. TLI Need to know who heard, who didn't.
In an item Tuesday, the National Review's Jim Geraghty argues that Barbour's remarks to the Weekly Standard might not by themselves make him "unelectable" but that a pattern of insensitive comments along with the idea that he was "oblivious" to the suffering of others might.
"A pattern of remarks is a different matter than one off-the-cuff anecdote that suggests a man remembers the elders of his youth through rose-colored glasses," Geraghty writes. "Watermelon jokes are appalling. Perhaps in that time and place the comment was common, but to modern ears, across the country today, it's an unthinkably obnoxious and racially provocative remark."
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