Reply #29: Is Tweety a racist? [View All]

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

I don't know. I don't know his heart.

I suspect that what he said was a botched attempt at a compliment. Put charitably, I think his logic would go something like this:

"Obama is Black. America is a country that has NEVER allowed a Black Man to be in charge, much less to be President. Obama's speech was so masterful that for an hour, I forgot that America was this kind of country."

I think (I hope) that the phrase "I forgot he was black" was a clever attempt at saying, "I forgot that America has a long history of prejudice."