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"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."

With this statement, Obama is exhibiting the same racial stereotyping he claims whites suffer from.

This “Typical White Person” has suffered three nasty incidents at the hands of brothers. In high school in Ithaca, NY, I was punched in the face for asking a guy’s sister to be quiet during a movie. He wheeled me around in the aisle when we were exiting the theater and landed a haymaker right on my face. A couple decades later, my wife and I were shook down in a parking lot in Palo Alto side street by four extremely aggressive thugs but luckily we weren’t mugged. And in Columbus, OH a colleague and I were intentionally rammed really hard while walking on a downtown city sidewalk after dinner. Again, we were lucky once again to not get mugged. I’ve tried to keep an open mind throughout my life, but the one common thread in these nasty incidents unfortunately does reinforce some ugly stereotypes.

if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences

the 'experience' that his gramma had, according to what he wrote in his first book, was being accosted at a bus stop by a panhandler asking for a dollar.

She gave him a dollar but instead of going away, he continued badgering her for more money, getting more agressive by the minute...the bus came and she was able to get out of the situation.

When she got home, she was visably upset and upon questioning, she related the story. Upon further questioning to describe the panhandler, she said he was black.

How racist of her!

For Obama to now skip these details as he labels her a 'Typical White Person" is a total misrepresentation of facts.

And even absent all this - what about what Jesse Jackson said back in the 90's?

""There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." "