In celebration of the upcoming anthology that Nico’s co-editing – The Audacity of Post-Racism – I’d like to direct you to poor ol’ Chris Matthews…the MSNBC with all the right intentions…the kid who often scores one for the dodgeball team, but not without it accidentally ricocheting and hitting the cute girl in the face.  In this case, the cute girl is everyone who belongs to a race.

Yikes…forgot Obama was black???  What, were you sitting there like, “What an eloquent little Welsh boy that is speaking up there!” If someone told me that something I did made them forget I was Asian…FOR A FULL HOUR!!…I’d slap them and then I’d go home and write a circa-1999 slam poem about my identity.

Chris Maaaaaaaaaathews
Nuts like some caaaaaaaaaaaashews
I want to grab a Pocky and staaaaaab you
Chocolate pundit
Chocolate pundit
Choc. O. Late. Pun. Dit.

Fortunately, he’s a talented television personality who has the platform and skills to overwrite any gaffs he might make while the camera’s rolling:

Thanks for that, Chris.  For a moment there we forgot that you were a colorblind unicorn who squirted civil rights from your eyeballs.

“Alas, grayscale Malcolm and Yuri reunited in my retinas!” – Chris Matthews

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