Chris Matthews: ‘I Forgot Obama Was Black’

A verbal miscue by MSNBC host Chris Matthews once again stirred debate across the Internet following last night’s state of the Union Address when he said U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech made him forgot Obama was black.

Matthews later strained to clarify his remark by saying Obama is just now leading this country from its racial past “at least in presidential politics.” But as Hot Air points out, African Americans are not strangers to Washington politics:

Matthews has it exactly backwards. John Kennedy may not have had an African-American cabinet member, but his successor did, and we have had African-Americans in high federal office for at least five decades. His “at least in presidential politics” qualifier is exceedingly strange after an address to Congress, which has a strong and influential Congressional Black Caucus.