Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
It was an unfortunate word he used, "typical," but if you read the quote, he was referring to his earlier comment about his grandmother, and he was saying that she doesn't hate blacks, but like a lot of white people, she has a reaction to them on the street that comes out the wrong way. Don't you think that is true? In my experience, a lot of white people who aren't necessarily racist still react funny when they meet blacks on the street.

I always hate it when black people jump on your exact wording when you are trying to make a point about race. How many times have you seen some poor white politician trying to make an honest effort to say something reasonable about race to a room of black people and make the mistake of saying something like, "You people."

"You people? YOU PEOPLE! How DARE you refer to us as 'YOU PEOPLE!'"

Now you guys are doing the same exact thing with Obama. Can't anyone get past this oversensitivity? This is why no one seems to be able to have a rational discussion about race. Here, I'll "sanitize" the quote for you so that it means the exact same thing but doesn't contain the offensive term "typical" that seems to have hurt your tender, delicate feelings so badly, "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is like a lot of white people. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way." There. Can you deal with that? It's an absolutely 100% true statement --- a lot of white poeple react to blacks in a way that comes off wrong, even if it doesn't come from racial animosity. Try to use your brain to think about what a person is saying.
You, Sir are very correct. You must be another one who sees. :wtf: