Is Chris Matthews a Racist

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Sunday January 31, 2010 · 9:43 AM PST

2010/01/31 · 09:43

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The transcript reads:

I was trying to think about who he was tonight. It's interesting: he is post-racial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he's gone a long way to become a leader of this country, and past so much history, in just a year or two. I mean, it's something we don't even think about. I was watching, I said, wait a minute, he's an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people. And here he is president of the United States and we've completely forgotten that tonight -- completely forgotten it. I think it was in the scope of his discussion. It was so broad-ranging, so in tune with so many problems, of aspects, and aspects of American life that you don't think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard. A very subtle fact. It's so hard to talk about. Maybe I shouldn't talk about it, but I am. I thought it was profound that way.

To me Chris Matthews is saying that before President Obama only a white guy can have a discussion that "was so broad-ranging, so in tune with so many problems, of aspects, and aspects of American life that you don't think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity." To me this is derogatory. African Americans are just as smart if not smarter than white Americans. I say smarter because white Americans do not have to learn to put up with the shit that African Americans do.

Here we have a white guy, Chris Matthews, saying that because an African American was the smartest guy in the room he forgot the guy was African American (i.e. thought the guy was white). Nobody on MSNBC caught this racist comment and few have referred to the comment.

I am terribly disappointed.

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