A very good read on the racist:
Chris Matthews and The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
He's an idiot racist or a racist idiot
Posted by Aaron Gardner
Thursday, January 28th
Last night, as I am sure many of you are aware, Chris Matthews forgot that Barack Obama was Black. In doing so he reminded the public that he is an idiot and a racist.
Really? Did he really just say all of that? I mean, this is a display of white guilt racialism frozen in amber that a scientist could someday use to recreate the likes of Chris Matthews and his ilk long after they have become extinct. It is the soft bigotry of low expectations, as President Bush called it, and it is at the core of many progressives.
Letâs go through the transcript together and deconstruct this little amber gemâ¦
I was trying to think about who he was tonight. Itâs interesting: he is post-racial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.
First, as Rush and Beck pointed out today, Matthews only forgot for an hour that the President was Black, the rest of the time Matthews clearly views Obama as black. And that, to Matthews, is a hindrance, as we see in the next blurbâ¦
You know, heâs gone a long way to become a leader of this country, and passed so much history, in just a year or two. I mean, itâs something we donât even think about.
So, after remembering that Obama is Black, Matthews then remembers that black = lesser. This sort of thinking is anathema to the ideas put forward by true deep thinkers and civil rights activists like MLK Jr., yet it is the wheelhouse of the left as Matthews continues to display.
I was watching, I said, wait a minute, heâs an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people. And here he is president of the United States and weâve completely forgotten that tonight â completely forgotten it.
See there, Matthewsâ gut tells him that because Obama is black he is lesser, and because he is lesser it is odd for him to be standing in front of the white people. And then, not only is this lesser standing in front, he is ⦠The PRESIDENT. And we have forgotten that.
I wonder if we should gird our loins Chris?
Ahemâ¦Moving onâ¦
I think it was in the scope of his discussion. It was so broad-ranging, so in tune with so many problems, of aspects, and aspects of American life that you donât think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard. A very subtle fact. Itâs so hard to talk about. Maybe I shouldnât talk about it, but I am. I thought it was profound that way.
Chrissy ends his racialist display with a bunch of flowery praise that just boils down to ⦠âNo Negro Dialectâ. Thanks for that Harry.
Now, on to the clarification, repentance and absolving of sins.
Transcript:
I think something that Iâd mentioned earlier tonight. And Iâm very proud I did it and I hope I can say it the right way. You know, this country has beenâand I grew up in a country that was driven apart by race right until the â60s. You couldnât have a black member of the United States Cabinet. There are no black Cabinet members in the Kennedy administration.
It has been such a big part of our life in big cities, this sort of ethnic debate, ethnic fighting. And then to see the president of the United States whoâs African-American, I was thinking tonight, this isnât even an issue tonight.
How far weâve come in just a year where it wasnât a campaign issue in some parts of the country. It was talked about as something that would hurt him. And it wasnât in the room tonight. You can feel it wasnât there tonight. And that takes leadership on his part to get us beyond these divisions.
Really, national leadership. And I felt it wonderfully then I saw it almost like an epiphany. And I hope itâs true, I hope what I saw is true, that weâve gotten beyond it. At leastâwell, in the presidential level, I think. Itâs still going to be out there in American life, but I think heâs done something wonderful.
I think heâs taken us beyond black and white in our politics wonderfully so in just a year. I think.
In Matthewsâ recollection of the lack of racialist overtones during the SOTU, hardly a unique thing, it becomes apparent that Matthews is aware of his own racialist injections. Making sure to point out that âit wasnât thereâ, thus exposing his inner thoughts that he expected it to be there. Then, upon realizing that it wasnât, Matthews had an epiphany. The epiphany is the realization that youâre the last racist in the room Chrissy.
Having had his epiphanal moment, he engages in the last cleansing act of those afflicted with white guilt. He claims redemption through the leadership of Obama, the black man who Chris Matthews, a white man, put into office.
And just like thatâ¦*POOF*â¦his sins, like those of Harry Reid, are forgiven.