What does it mean to "transcend race"?

Sophia Nelson, a black attorney, former lobbyist and founder of PoliticalIntersection.com, which focuses on politics, race and gender, said she has been offended by people calling her articulate and intelligent: “That’s saying that people who look like me normally aren’t those things.”

She said Matthews’ comment showed the same unconscious bias as those by Vice President Joe Biden when he was still a senator that Obama was “clean” and “articulate,” and Sen. Harry Reid’s saying that Obama was more electable because he was light-skinned and lacking a “Negro dialect.”

“Matthews was saying exactly what he meant,” Nelson said. “He forgot he was black because he’s so articulate and so compelling.”