Senator Harry Reid, who is well known for been an avid defender of civil rights, has already apologized for referring to President Barack Obama as “light-skinned” with no “Negro Dialect” in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.

But Michael Steele, the first African American chairman of the Republican National Committee, defends those comments are racist and it doesn’t matter from which side they came from. Steele requested that the Republican Senator is forced to resign following the example of Trent Lott, who resigned after racist comments back in 2002.

“I think he should,” said Steele. “There is a standard where Democrats think they can say these things and apologize when it comes from the mouth of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it’s racism. It’s either racist or it’s not. And it’s inappropriate, absolutely. So if the standard is the one we saw with Trent Lott as leader at the time, then I think this absolutely falls in that category here. … Remember, this is the same leader who just a few weeks ago was talking about health care in the context of slavery. Clearly he is out of touch.”

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