Herman Cain Has Become The Perfect Racist

[RhodaA]

Last night on The Ed Schultz Show, Michael Eric Dyson said this about Cain:

He wants to give the Republican party the gift of absolution.


Herman Cain Has Become The Perfect Racist
by Dr. Boyce Watkins

Cain has also made a career of hurling insults at Black people that no white man could ever get away with ... Most of his comments are not the kinds of things he could say about other ethnic groups; if he were to say that all Jews were brainwashed (as he said about African Americans), he’d be off the stage before finishing his sentence. Herman Cain has become, in many ways, the perfect racist ... Herman Cain has volunteered to become the cute little political puppet which allows white America to say the things that they are afraid to say ...

It is their ability to put Cain out front to absorb the criticism for racist remarks that makes millions of right-wing Americans so happy about his racial politics. Cain validates and brings security to a set of ideas that are generally unacceptable to those who understand America’s ugly racial history.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Wouldn't you love to have Rev. Al Sharpton interview Herman Cain?

[RhodaA]

2. Yes!

[teddy51]

3. That would be awesome, Rev. Al would not go easy on him either. n/t

[RhodaA]

6. Rev Al's contact: @politicsnation

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[Lint Head]

4. Just like Limbaugh, Cain makes the GOP feel good with their racism.

[RhodaA]

7. Lawrence O'Donnell said this about Cain's

position on the Civil Rights movement:

"If it weren't for the Civil Rights movement, you would not even be able to vote, let alone run for president."