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Via Roland Martin

Chris Matthews is definitely going to take some heat for exclaiming that he “forgot [Obama] was black tonight for an hour… I said wait a minute, he’s an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people.” Matthews was analyzing President Obama’s first State of the Union speech when he made the remark.

During a subsequent appearance with Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night, Chris Matthews tried to explain his remark that he “forgot [Obama] was black tonight for an hour.”