Reply #14: It's quite possible for people who are bigoted to vote for someone of another race [View All]

[Empowerer]

People vote for politicians for all sorts of reasons and often those reasons trump their racial biases.

I know a number of black people who can't stand white people, but they still vote for white politicians all of the time. I know white people who have all kinds of biases against minorities - often biases they don't even realize they have - yet they vote for black candidates if they think that those candidates will best serve their interests.

Having racial biases, bigotry or even outright racism does not mean that one won't support a black person or even that they don't like them. Just look at America's own history. For example, during Reconstruction, blacks were elected to Congress and the Senate on the votes of many whites who were much more backward thinking on race than most people are today.

Racial bias is very, very complicated - it's not as cut and dried as some people think.

And yes, Cain DOES knowingly promote policies that are harmful to black Americans. I don't know why he does it - there are many reasons why some African Americans turn on their own folks and Cain would not be the first one to do so. That is a very complicated situation, as well.

This article isn't "playing the race card." It simply analyzes a very real situation that has a historical and political context and that has a great deal of study and research to back it up.