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You have respect Mike Huckabee for being truthful and expressing his real thoughts in a time when it is definitely not the most popular thing to do in the Republican Party. In response to Barack Obama’s speech about race and dealing with the offensive comments of his former paster Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Huckabee says:

And one other thing I think we’ve got to remember: As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, “That’s a terrible statement,” I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I’m going to be probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you: We’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, “You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus.” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had a more, more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

Very few people would even consider viewing the situation from the perspective of the person who said and even less would say it publicly. Much respect to Mike Huckabee for doing so.

For the transcript of the full interview, go here.