Obama said, ?but I would also say that there?s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group."
?He didn?t just cross the line,? Obama said. ?He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women ? who I hope will be athletes ? that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It?s one that I?m not interested in supporting.?
?What we?ve been seeing around this country is this constant ratcheting up of a coarsening of the culture that all of have to think about,? Obama said.
Obama continued, ?Insults, humor that degrades women, humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn?t fun.?
?And the notion that somehow it?s cute or amusing, or a useful diversion, I think, is something that all of us have to recognize is just not the case. We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information are we feeding our kids,? he concluded.
What a two faced hypocrite!