&#8220;I forgot he was black tonight for an hour&#8221;
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<p>Oh, right.  I forgot the rules.  Only Republicans get that treatment.</p>
