Just like clockwork, as soon as Herman Cain jumps in the polls, the left-wing attacks start coming. Perhaps, it was MSNBC that initiated it. Lawrence O'Donnell jumped all over Cain last week because he didn't join the civil rights marches as a teenager and didn't serve in uniform. The fact that O'Donnell hasn't served in uniform either didn't stop him from being a hypocrite.
Now come the Uncle Tom charges from the familiar faces like Harry Belafonte, that great friend of Hugo Chavez. Now come "spokesmen" like Cornel West of Princeton University saying that Cain "needs to get off the symbolic crack pipe".
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1212549869001/cain-under-attack-from-prominent-african-americans/?playlist_id=86858#/v/1212549869001/cain-under-attack-from-prominent-african-americans/?playlist_id=86858
“Black people have been working hard for decades. I think he needs it get off the symbolic crack pipe and acknowledge that the evidence is overwhelming. I think he also knows that if brother Anthony Davis, a brother who was just put to death, were a white Wall Street banker brother, that the response in the nation would have been very different, as opposed to being a poor black brother. And that’s just one small example, one very small example of that, of racism still at work holding people back.” – Cornel West on CNN.
That's why West is teaching at Princeton, alma mater of other such luminaries as Norman Finkelstein.
But I digress.
To the left, Cain is the most dangerous figure of all; he is a self-made, conservative black man who puts the lie to charges that the Tea Party is racist, a lie repeated by such Hollywood dim bulb types as Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman. The fact is that Cain is one of the most popular figures in the Tea Party, along with Allen West. Now he is rising in the polls, and the possibility emerges that he could actually win the nomination.
To his credit, Cain is standing his ground against race-mongers like West and Belafonte. In addition, Juan Williams, no conservative, is defending Cain against these attacks.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/11/cain-effort-to-intimidate-me-will-not-succeed/
As Cain climbs in the public perception, he will have to walk the same road traveled by other black conservatives like Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder and others. The left and the race-mongers cannot afford to allow people like these to become role models for black youth, whom the left wants to grow up to join the ranks of the victocrats.
I know. I know. What business does an old white guy like me have in defining who should be role models for black youth? But what the heck. I believe it. I said it. And I stand by it.
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It is going to get very dirty! The far-left strategy that is. But, we must weather the odious storm of Saul Alinsky style rhetoric. By knowing the Progressive talking
points, the ideology and startegy, we can shrug off the labels which these Marxist types would toss our way. As the 2012 campaign progresses, so will the Alinskite tactics to polarize the electorate and smear the conservative candidates and those who will support them.
Make my day!!!
Squid
I'm another old white guy who doesn't refrain from talking about Americans of African descent, good, bad, ugly and indifferent. "They" come in all types, just like every other artificial demographic the mind of man has mindlessly divided us all into.
Whenever I see a copy of Cornel West's book, "Race Matters," I think to myself "No it doesn't. Race is a completely artificial construct. We need to throw it away, not wallow in it." I will concede though that those who could continue to think of themselves as "white" need to throw that label away first, because it was someone who made up the notion "I'm a white man" who invented the label "black" because he saw a way to make money off the difference. Nobody in Africa called themselves "black" before some European showed up and told them so.
Cain has no better position to speak for "black people" than Cornel West or anyone else does. As Jesse B. Semple said in 1965, "as if there were not fifty-eleven different kinds of black people in the USA." Cain is one of the fifty-eleven kinds. He's nothing special for that. He's just a different kind of wrong than Cornel West.
Most of Clarence Thomas's critics got it all wrong. Thomas's biography was as authentic as any of growing up with dark skin in a racist southern state. However, that doesn't guarantee he would be a good lawyer or a competent judge. In his autobiography, he said the senate committee asked him all kinds of questions about legal precedents and landmark cases, and he didn't know the answers. That is why he should have been denied confirmation, not because he didn't measure up to some artificial notion of blackness. Ditto for Cain.
Can we call Cain the "un-Mc"?
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