Republican Party Chair Michael Steele is calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down over racial remarks Reid made about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. A new book reveals that in private conversation Reid said the country was ready to embrace a black candidate in part because Obama was a “light-skinned” African American with “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Harry Reid has apologized to Obama. In a statement, Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”