Matthews to Michael Steele: Aren't White Republicans Still Afraid of Black People?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/01/17/matthews-michael-ste...
MSNBC's Chris Matthews honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day by accusing white Republicans of being afraid of black people. During a Monday night Hardball special called "Obama's America," Matthews insultingly asked former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele if, at GOP conventions, black-Americans at those events were told not to "bunch up" because "you'll scare these people" and added: "Did you fear that if you got together with some other African-Americans white guys might get scared of you?"

Steele, who was the only Republican on the panel, seemed shocked by the question as he responded to Matthews: "No! What are you talking about?" and then proceeded to cite the successful candidacies of Tim Scott, Allen West and others in the GOP field that would suggest white Republicans weren't exactly afraid of, as Matthews put it, "black folk hanging together."

The following is the full exchange from the panel that featured Steele along with the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and Democratic Congresswoman Donna Edwards, as it was aired on the January 17 edition of Hardball?:

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[Roachenator]

its matthews who "sees"/imagines all that because he himself is racist

[astronato]

Mathews daily dose of race baiting

[henhao1972]

@bathroommonkey76 haha...funny stuff....by the way ...I dont like Bachman either so dont jump to conclusions

[henhao1972]

If a republican ever said anything even close to that he would be branded a racist from here to high kingdom come but wait...its a libtard....its excusable,,,gotta love the double standard in that wonderful USA

[henhao1972]

@bathroommonkey76 I guess bathroom monkey wants to spank mathews monkey ?? lol

[henhao1972]

@bathroommonkey76 thanks jen

[henhao1972]

@bathroommonkey76 ur an ass and mathews is a douche!

[henhao1972]

Can you say dumb fuck?

[USA4July1776]

Aren't leftists race-obsessed bigots who project their own faults on their opposition?

[BPigs]

What an a-hole...

[brandeezy108]

white people can be racist but so can black people. we are all racist on the inside.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

They arent afraid of black people they just dont like black people.