“Barak is the first African-American to be nominated by a major partry in a major country." As if white Americans get presidential nominations in France all the time."
Let's give Matthews the benefit of the doubt here.
Let's say that Matthews really meant to say "Barak is the first Black person to be nominated by a major partry in a major country."
Even then, Matthews' comment would be breathtaking.
And it would be typically liberal.
Matthews is so absorbed by the "historic" nomination of St. Barak the Messiah that he has no doubt forgotten that there are plenty of other "major countries" in this world that have nominated Black people for President.
Starting with Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
In a hat tip to political correctness, I remember when at one of the Olympic Games during the 90s, the network (NBC as I recall) told their reporters not to refer to any of the athletes as "black." They were to describe them as "African American." That Olympics, we had African American atheletes from Great Britian, Jamaica, Kenya... It was pretty funny.