Michael Steele, the chairman of the RNC, recently put himself in the same boat with President Obama on matters of race.

Steele, currently in the midst of a spending scandal that is plaguing the RNC, agreed in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos with the idea that being African American gave him a "slimmer margin of error" than a white chairman might have had.

"The honest answer is yes," Steele told Stephanopoulos. "It just is. Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. We all -- a lot of folks do. It's a different role for me to play and others to play, and that's just the reality of it. But you take that as part of the nature of it."

Steele has made insensitive comments on race in the past. However, according to a story in TheRoot.com, the problems Obama and Steele face have existed for blacks in those areas for many years.

More at TheRoot.com.

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