sigh.

[fox]

I didn't hear the speech tonight. But I heard the local news station going on about it in the car on the way from work to errands to curling. And I heard one of the news readers say this:

America has come so far, hasn't it? We've got an African-American as president, and we've got a man of Indian descent giving the opposition response. There's not a white guy up there!

(And then her colleague said "And don't forget Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker!")

I may in fact ("there are hundreds of white guys!") have yelled at the radio.

Comments

[samtheeagle.livejournal.com]

The President of the Senate (the Vice President of the United States)? Who sat "up there" with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi? Very much a white dude. Just saying. DC radio didn't know that?

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

I was about to say the same thing.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Oh, look, and I've found a site that breaks down the Racial Composition of the 111th Congress: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American ... and Jewish. [facepalm]

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

To say nothing of the ~400 other white men (and women) in the room -- they weren't "up there" on the altar podium, but neither was Bobby Jindal.