Courtesy of the AP:
The billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television says Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white and that the Illinois senator’s campaign has ‘a hair-trigger on anything racial.’
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‘Geraldine Ferraro [was] right,’ [Bob] Johnson added. ‘The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.’
What’s your opinion about Mr. Johnson’s comments, Rev. Wright?