On Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama described his grandmother's racial attitudes as those of a "typical white person." During his speech on race Obama said his grandmother was "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world," but he then qualified that description by noting she was also "a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Swiss Knife Depot