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Chris Matthews: ‘I forgot [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.’

Via Ed Morrissey. Even though I stayed away from watching the State of the Union last night and didn’t even watch any of the coverage afterward, I still heard something about a comment by Chris Matthews on Obama’s blackness or him forgetting about it or something. I just watched the video and now I get the ongoing brouhaha over his comment. He said he forgot that Obama was black for a moment there, as some sort of compliment to him. Like, dude, he actually said this.

Whatever, no surprise here. White lefties are obsessed with race and always will be. That’s a known thing. This is the way they compliment black people, by alluding to their lack of blackness. Remember Harry Reid’s “Negro dialect” moment?

One of their biggest nightmares is a truly post-racial America. They view the President, and other minorities, as purely racial beings, nothing more. And they can’t get over the fact that most Americans, especially conservatives, don’t care one iota about Obama’s race. I like how Jonah Golderg put it:

Personally, I think Chris Matthews’ momentary colorblindness offers a telling insight. As many of us have argued around here for a while, conservatives aren’t obsessed with Obama’s race, liberals are. That’s why we’ve had so many asinine, nasty and ignorant charges of racism hurled at Obama’s critics.  There’s a certain species of liberal that can’t get over Obama’s race. They assume that conservatives can’t get over it either and so criticism of Obama from the right must — according to Olbermannesque thinking — stem from some evil desire to see a “black man fail” or some other idiocy. I think it’s nice that we have a black president as do most conservatives I know. I just don’t think it’s the most important thing in the world. Nor do I think that his blackness makes bad liberal ideas suddenly good. Black men are wrong when they say 2+2 is 5 too.

Unlike Chris Matthews, I go weeks, even months, without “remembering” that Obama is black. It’s just not a big part of how I see the world or his day-to-day presidency. It is a big part of how Matthews sees things. I leave it to others to decide whose outlook is healthier.

Always remember: These race-obsessed buffoons are the same ones who are constantly harping about other people’s latent and blatant racism. It’s all projection, baby.

I’ve said this for a year and a half on Tumblr- while every liberal on tumblr was shouting “racist!” at me for not voting for Obama- I’m not the one obsessed with his race (I could give a fuck), YOU are…

…and you know, people like Jimmy Carter, who said if we ever disagree with Obama it is because we are racist. Not because we could possibly have different political views…

And then there’s this crapola. Where once again, the “progressives” try to demonize the “conservatives” as using race. But oh, wait, those are his fricking cabinet members! Who is race baiting, again? Hmmm…?

Actually, the “black woman” is McDonnell’s Secretary of Administration, Lisa Hicks-Thomas. The “Asian guy” is Secretary of Commerce and Trade Jim Cheng. The “military guy” is Staff Sargeant Robert Tenpenny, who served with Jeanine McDonnell in Iraq. And, for good measure, in the lower right, is Secretary of the Commonwealth Janet Polarek.

Source: randyhaddock