Straight from the horse’s mouth:

“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, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know there’s a reaction that’s been been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it…” - Senator Barack Obama

The Huffington Post

And the Huffington Post has the audio clip that you can listen to.

I wonder what exactly is a “typical white person?” I do know one thing, though. Obama isn’t going to win any election without a significant amount of votes from all of those “typical white people” in America.

I wonder how long the media circus would go on if John McCain had to explain what a typical black person is?