Reply #89: Carol Simpson said the same thing on King a couple of weeks ago! LINK.......

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You CANNOT tell me this isn't from the TOP!!!!!

Carole Simpson Says Black Person Can't Be Elected

http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/080430_prince/

Former ABC anchor Carole Simpson, a Hillary Clinton supporter, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Monday that Sen. Barack Obama could not be elected because he is black.

Carole Simpson
Simpson, who now teaches at Emerson College, made the comment in a conversation with professor and author Michael Eric Dyson and Flavia Colgan, columnist and editorial board member of the Philadelphia Daily News, both identified as Obama supporters.

The conversation went like this:

"SIMPSON: Thank you very much. What I want to say is how much things have changed. When this race started, Obama had all of the attention, rock star, Obama girl, everything, everybody was flocking to him. And now look at where we are. And I was asked on this program, should Hillary drop out and I said absolutely not. Anything could happen. And look at what has happened. We have a confluence now of race and religion, two hot political potatoes, and Obama stuck right in the middle of it.

"DYSON: Larry, can I say this? I think it's very important to say that Barack Obama himself has been brilliant in transcending these divisions, these bitter precincts of prejudice, and looking towards an America that he can unite. Even though he loves his pastor and distances himself from what he says that he finds , he calls on the American people to move beyond his paralyzing prejudices to unite as Americans. I think that's what we have to focus on.

"KING: We have about a minute. Flavia, do you fear that Obama may become this year's Dukakis?

COLGAN: Look, the proof in the pudding is in the eating of it. And I certainly respect the viewpoints of the American voter. So far they have obviously chosen Barack Obama, in terms of delegates. And throughout the country, he's running a 50-state strategy. But I will respect whatever decision they make. I think that it's patronizing to the American public to think that we haven't made — and this is where I disagree with Reverend Wright — that we haven't made enough progress as a nation that someone like Barack Obama will not become president simply because of the color of their skin. I do not believe that.

"SIMPSON: Oh, you better believe it.

"COLGAN: I'm sorry. You can have your opinion.

"SIMPSON: You better believe it.

"COLGAN: I do not believe, based on my experience, that that is the case."