"I think we’re still a race-sensitive nation. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it. And, you know, sometimes things that may seem innocent [are] so loaded in their terminology because, you know, to a large extent people are still in denial about how their words send signals to different groups and people who are inclined to pick up on them as racially inflammatory. We have to be careful and I think we have to become much more sensitive to this historic inability to, you know, really deal with it."
— Re.p Yvette Clarke in response to Bill Clinton reportedly saying to Ted Kennedy about Barack Obama, ”A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”
