Reply #17: You see it as an insult because it IS an insult

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I grew up in an all black environment and didn't even know anyone white until I was a 17-year old college freshman.

I'll never forget hearing one white girl describe a very light-skinned black girl that we both knew to another white girl as "so beautiful that you could hardly tell she was black." Like you said, like it was the highest compliment in the world. Five minutes of me explaining to her that what she said was actually HIGHLY insulting (hopefully) cured her of that belief.

The idea that because this President was so sharp, so on point and on top of his game that this made Matthews "forget Obama was black" is his way of saying "he was so good that for an hour, I unconsciously overcame my innate racial prejudices that blacks are inferior and actually LISTENED to what the man said." On one hand, yay Chris. Only took you what, 60+ years to be able to do this?? :eyes:

On the other hand, he needs to know that what he said was clumsy, racially insensitive and flat out damn STUPID. The thing that kills me though is that typically for DU and for America, for every person who says "please tell me he didn't actually say that" there are almost as many saying "what did he say that was so bad??"