Reply #108: You must also consider the audience. There's many white Americans [View All]

who have never associated with an African American. All they see of African Americans is what is on TV, and what is on TV is not reality. Their other source for info on African Americans is from hate radio or TV sports. Cafferty could be saying that Obama is not the stereotyped African American. I didn't see the spot, so I can't say if it was an ignorant statement or not.


I had a friend who took off on a solo cross country trip. He ended up in some out back town in Maine. Because he was black, he became sort of a novelty, many had never seen a black person in real life. It blew him away. He was interviewed on local radio and the weekly newspaper did a spot on him. He was a member of a street theater group, so he knew how to hold an audience.

I've been in a situation where I was surrounded by people who rarely see white people. Some of the younger people had their first encounter with a white and wanted to feel my skin and hair.
There was no prejudice, only curiosity.