{"id":1625,"date":"2010-01-28T16:21:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2010-07-18T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T01:20:02","slug":"i-forgot-he-was-black-tonight-for-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I forgot he was black tonight for an hour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In commentary following Barack Obama&#8217;s 2010 State of the Union address last night, MSNBC commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Matthews\">Chris Matthews<\/a> said &#8220;You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to even wrap my mind around racial prejudice that blind and entrenched.  If I were black I think I&#8217;d be <em>righteously<\/em> pissed off &mdash; and yet, Matthews and his fans undoubtedly think of themselves as the enlightened ones who are leading the rest of us troglodytes to the sunny uplands of universal brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Matthews, I have news for you: some of us actually manage to forget that Obama is black for weeks at a time &mdash; that is, until we&#8217;re reminded of it by a self-righteous, pompous, race-obsessed idiot like you.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this man still have a job this morning?  Why is there not a universal howling for his blood from bien pensants everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, right.  I forgot the rules.  Only Republicans get that treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In commentary following Barack Obama&#8217;s 2010 State of the Union address last night, MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews said &#8220;You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard for me to even wrap my mind around racial prejudice that blind and entrenched. If I were black I think I&#8217;d be righteously pissed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1625\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;I forgot he was black tonight for an hour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}