Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Whites are racist, even when they support a black candidate

Or so implies Bob Johnson, the founder of BET, a prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton, who got in trouble the other day for quite obviously hinting at Barack Obama's past drug use.
And today he's even worse: "[Johnson] said Obama has avoided talking about race, a tactic that Johnson said made him acceptable to the largely white electorate of Iowa. Obama won the state's Democratic caucuses on Jan. 3. "White America is saying, 'He's safe for us, he should be safe for you guys,' " Johnson said, referring to blacks. "We're letting other people pick our leaders."

Wow. Just wow.