Barack Obama says, "...typical white person."

[ceo]

610 WIP host Angelo Cataldi asked Obama about his Tuesday morning speech on race at the National Constitution Center in which he referenced his own white grandmother and her prejudice.

Obama told Cataldi that "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know - there's a reaction in her that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. What makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling less like that. And that's pretty powerful stuff"

What if Hillary Clinton referred to someone as a "typical black person"? Would that be ok? Or would there be an uproar? Would she lose supporters?

Is there a double standard here?

 

[jnevin]

No double standard. White people are all a little racist. We all owned slaves. Even my family did. And I'm the first one born in America.

 

[jestro]

Typical black dood.

 

[Longhorn85]

What if Hillary Clinton referred to someone as a "typical black person"? Would that be ok? Or would there be an uproar? Would she lose supporters?

Is there a double standard here?

Not really. If Hillary was raised by a black man and was speaking in the context that Obama was, about her personal upbringing by this black man, there would not be an uproar.

 

[jnevin]

Not really. If Hillary was raised by a black man and was speaking in the context that Obama was, about her personal upbringing by this black man, there would not be an uproar.

bullshit

 

[Longhorn85]

bullshit

You will need to elaborate before I can discect your answer.

 

[ceo]

bullshit

I call bullshit too. Hillary could've been raised by a black family in rural Mississippi (like Steve Martin in, "The Jerk" lol), and if she had said in an interview, "...TYPICAL BLACK PERSON." Shit would erupt!!!! Jeramiah Wright would be all over it you know!

 

[jnevin]

You will need to elaborate before I can discect your answer.

All you did was confirm the double standard. There's nothing to disect. But thank you. Your response was what I would have expected. Typical.

 

[ceo]

I should've fabricated some bullshit about Hillary calling Barack a typical black person for making some comments...see what that would've led to here. Damn, too late now though.

 

[binö]

this issue is so fuggin played