"It isn’t the Reverend Wright Scandal (Yet): Herman Cain’s “Liberal” Black Church Problem"

[XanaDUer]

SNIP - Herman Cain has vaulted to the top of the polls as a Republican presidential candidate, but there’s one audience that may prove tougher for him to win over: his hometown church.

Cain, a conservative who recently said African-Americans were “brainwashed” into voting Democratic, is an associate minister at an Atlanta megachurch that has been a stronghold of liberal activism and is led by a pastor who cites Malcolm X as one of his influences.

Cain is a longtime member of Antioch Baptist Church North, which sits near the former college and home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The church, founded by freed slaves 134 years ago, boasts 14,000 members and an operating budget of more than $5 million. For years Antioch has hosted a “who’s who” of civil rights activists as guest speakers, including Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/10/19/it-isnt-the-reverend-wright-scandal-yet-herman-cains-liberal-black-church-problem/

[Lars39]

1. Those 14,000 members should be ashamed of themselves for choosing him

as an associate minister.

[FarLeftFist]

2. That abortion gaffe he made will make him doomed.

[tanyev]

3. There's your opening, Michele.

Go get him!


:rofl:

[XanaDUer]

4. Kick!

nt.