Washington DC: Bob Parks a member of the Project 21 black leadership network questions the sensibilities of MSNBC talking head Chris Matthews after Matthews made yet another racially-charged comment on the air last night.
After last nights State of the Union Address Matthews said about President Obamas performance:
You know I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.
Trying to explain this epiphany later with fellow MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow Matthews said he was proud he made the statement. Parks said: Chris goes on and on about President Obama being post-racial and then admits that he forgot he was black tonight for an hour. Then he manages to ramble on and on about tribalism and ethnicity in that same segment.
There are many things that can be taken from that kind of thinking and none of them are nice.
A clip of the comment is on You Tube at http://tw0.us/6Cl.
Project 21 established in 1992 is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research a non-profit foundation established in 1982 and funded primarily from the gifts of over 100000 recent individual donors.
