It could have been worse; he could have said, “niggardly black hole”.
That would be funny - except that the effect of this ignorant sensitivity is to reduce vocabulary. Where a word like “niggardly”, which has a perfectly distinct etymology and predates the racial epithet by over 100 years, has an appropriate use, these chowder heads will banish it from usage forever. The kind of thing that would make me drop my opposition to Obama would be his coming out and attacking this kind of reflexive but adamant ignorance on the part of blacks. He of all people should understand the value of an education and the power of a developed vocabulary. Yet he cannot take the time to point out that Rev. Wright was not merely being bombastic - but he was completely false in many assertions (such as HIV as a deliberated policy of government as urban genocide). I won’t hold my breath for Obama to come around.