Barack Obama said...

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.

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Barack Obama explains his comments about his grandmother and the complexities of race in America.

03/19/2008

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