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Old 05-02-2008, 05:15 AM   #48 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gunnut View Post
Notice the quotation marks are around "typical white" rather than the entire sentence.

Obama did mean that when he refered to his grandmother as a "typical white person" who's not comfortable with black people, even afraid of them (well...only one, on the bus).
Weren't there some black folks walking down the street as well?
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