Pundits and politicos were shocked on Friday when a spokesperson for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) publicly admitted that former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was the Party’s token black guy. Although The comment was the least racist thing you might hear at CPAC, people were stunned by Steele’s reaction, whispering among themselves:

“Wait ...he didn’t know?”

CPAC is the biggest and most influential national Klan political convention, uniting disparate entities like white people, Caucasian people, more white people and Ben Carson. Essentially the Republican Freaknik, the conference facilitates the National Rifle Association’s mission to purchase the souls of politicians by gathering them all in one location so the NRA can roll the wheelbarrows of cash into to one room.

At Friday night’s Ronald Reagan dinner, between courses of lettuce salad and water-marinated chicken, communications director Ian Walters said that the RNC elected Michael Steele to serve as chairman from 2009-2011 “because he was a black guy, and that was the wrong thing to do.”

There were reportedly gasps in the room, but The Hill, who reported the story, could not confirm if the gasps were because of Walters’ comment, or because the crowd was delighted at the mashed potato pie being served for dessert.