Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who famously referred to former President Bill Clinton as America's "first black president," tells Time magazine (h.t. Drudge Report) what she really meant was that during the presidential sex scandals of the Nineties, Clinton was treated like a black man.

Morrison, who is backing Sen. Barack Obama for president, had this to say in Time's "10 Questions" feature:

Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.
People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.

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