Reply #147: I believe that's the whole point of Tweety's comments.

[vaberella]

We know that we're in a racialized world. White people when looking at the President---rarely see the President for who he is...but a Black man. It's like this. When many peopole talk about Obama in another country or to other people---he's the First Black President. There is this thing that he's Black and then President. It's continuously pushed around. However, on this night Tweety, for himself at least---saw President and dropped anything related to the color of the man's skin. We are not living in a post-racial society and I think for Tweety that night he realized that he wasn't living in it because that was the one moment he was able to escape this social construction.

At first I was offended but in light of the context it redefines everything.