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“Mmmmmblah-ck” Rick Santorum says “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”

This is a real video from Iowa, as if there were not enough reasons to not vote for Rick Santorum (NSFW). His explanation is that he actually said “blah” people, which, no:

“I looked at that, and I didn’t say that. If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — came out. And people said I said ‘black.’ I didn’t. And I can tell you, I don’t use — I don’t — first off, I don’t use the term ‘black’ very often. I use the term ‘African-American’ more than I use ‘black… I can tell you as someone who did more work for historically black colleges, I used to have — every year, I used to bring all the historically black colleges into Washington, DC to try to help them, because they get very little federal money through the bureaucracy, and so I help to try to introduce them to people in the Department of Education so they could have more resources.”

“Look, I’m not racist.  In fact, some of my best friends are black colleges.”

via Clutch Magazine, h/t Erica