Chris Matthews offered a strange analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union address on MSNBC: “I forgot he was black tonight.”
“I was trying to think about who he was tonight, and it’s interesting,” Matthews said. “He is post racial by all appearances, you know. Y’know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. He’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country and past so much history in just a year or two.”
I was watching, I said, ‘Wait a minute, he’s an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people and there he is, president of the United States, and we’ve completely forgotten that tonight, completely forgotten it.
Matthews continued: “You don’t think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard.”
And this:
“I shouldn’t talk about it but I am. I thought it was profound that way.”
Here’s the video:
Late Update: Later in the evening, Matthews clarified his remark.
