Chris Matthews: America Is Swimming in Racism.
Chris Matthews: America Is “Swimming” in Racism. Video. Real Clear Politics, April 15, 2014. YouTube. Also at Newsmax.
Matthews:
This is
always tricky business because we grew up in a country that had slavery for 350
years, we had Jim Crow for 100. We have racial segregation in housing, which is
unbelievable, there’s an untold amount of it still in business that you can’t
isolate, and then we sit around like purists and say, “oh I've detected some
racism here.” It’s all around us! And we don’t even—we’re swimming in it, to
some extent. And we don't know how to define it or limit it or push away from
it. We all agree we’ve got to push away from it.
John
Boehner has refused to challenge the nut balls in his party who believe in
birtherism, that’s not even racism. That’s racism plus stupidity. To think this
guy’s white mother from Kansas headed over to Africa to have the kid over there
and have a kid named Barack Hussein Obama elected president in 40 years. That’s
insane kind of thinking, but Donald Trump played that card.