But she is a typical white person, who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away

People are afraid of strangers, especially if they look different. You know, as a toddler, I was afraid of my grandfather's beard (and he was a white guy!). And some peoples' fears are completely irrational - for instance a lot of people are afraid of snakes and driving over bridges, and these are fears that often never overcome, so you can't really say that these are moral failures either.

and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society.

Because some times good people say something awkward ("the wrong way") and they shouldn't be called "racist." That was the take home message from what Obama was saying. I think the GOP is panicked at the thought of Obama rising above the Reverend Wright story. They are also panicked that Obama could disarm the race issue and their whispered screaming smear campaign by candidly answering their smears and making them look foolish. So the first time Obama used the word "white," the GOP smear machine went to DefCon 4 and started text messaging the pre-written smears about Obama's racism. This is ironic at so many levels, but mostly because Obama was saying that race baitors should not twist someone's words to call them "racists," and that specifically he was saying that whites should not be afraid to talk about race. And of course, the status quo is not going to stand for anyone saying anything that dangerous, so of course they twisted his words to call him a racist.