Can you say "brainwashed?"
Mitt Romney's description of the ongoing Big Dig fiasco as a "tar baby" was clearly not intended to be racist. But a strong case can be made that anybody who uses the term "tar baby" in this day and age is at least a tad insensitive in racial matters- and that's going to hurt.
The remark isn't going to go away, as sincere as Romney's apology is and as unintended as the racist connotations were. Sensitivity and political correctness are confused, but they aren't the same thing- and this was a sensitivity issue. Doubtless, though, given everything we know about Romney, it was also an uncharacteristic slip.
It will be interesting to see how open African-Americans are to that likely explaination.
HT: Drudge
The remark isn't going to go away, as sincere as Romney's apology is and as unintended as the racist connotations were. Sensitivity and political correctness are confused, but they aren't the same thing- and this was a sensitivity issue. Doubtless, though, given everything we know about Romney, it was also an uncharacteristic slip.
It will be interesting to see how open African-Americans are to that likely explaination.
HT: Drudge
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