The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity — she doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way. And that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. And what makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling a little bit less like that, and that's pretty powerful stuff.


Interview on radio staion 610 WIP (20 March 2008), as quoted in Chris Wallace criticizes Fox & Friends for "two hours of Obama bashing" in which hosts "distort … what Obama had to say" (21 March 2008)

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The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity — she doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if...

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity — she doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if...

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity — she doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if...

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity — she doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if...