Hat tip to the Blaze
It was only last week, while watching MSNBC, that I became aware of this character who goes by the name of Toure (with an accent over the e, no less). He is some kind of writer and now an "MSNBC contributor", whatever that is. He was talking, of course, about the Herman Cain scandal. Toure is one of the chorus of those on the left who hate Cain because he is a black conservative. Naturally, they are all over the scandal. My first reaction in watching Toure on MSNBC is that he was a smug, arrogant jerk. After seeing this latest video of his exchange with Martin Bashir, I also think he is a cheap race-monger. Watch as he drags up one of the vilest race libels you can imagine.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msnbc-contributor-to-bashir-cains-predatory-black-sexuality-is-very-frightening-in-this-country/
This, of course, fits right in with the despicable comments made about Cain recently by the likes of Harry Belafonte and that joke of a professor at Princeton, Cornel West.
Up till now, the debate has been strictly about whether Cain has engaged in sexual harassment and improper physical advances on women. I am not aware of any Republicans or conservatives anguishing over the race of the women involved. I did recently speculate about when the left would drag this up, and now they have. This ugly issue has been raised not by Republicans, but by the left as exemplified by Mr. Toure or whatever his nom de plume is.
Yet, no matter how much the Toures out there want to talk about this, those on the right who have supported Cain continue to care only about the truth of the allegations, the expectation that the facts will come out accurately, and Cain will be treated fairly. If it turns out they are true, he will not have my support. If it turns out false, then I will continue to have a positive view of Cain.
For people like Toure to bring up these old scares about "predatory black men harassing blonde, white women" is ugly and ridiculous. It hearkens back to a day before this little jerk was even born. It also does no service to black people, who would like to see an end to such stereotypes that have harmed them.
This is the kind of trash that MSNBC is trafficking in. That also applies to that jerk, Martin Bashir, a British journalist who is over here feeding at our trough even as he criticizes our society. He's the kind of guy you want to tell to "go back home", to use a rather jingoistic phrase. Some times, it is used in an ugly manner. Sometimes, it fits to a tee.
To reiterate, it is the left who is injecting race into this story, not the right, not the folks who continue to support Cain, and not those who are considering their vote for Cain. This is what the left does, folks, and especially what the left does to black conservatives. It is really scary stuff.
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It seems to the Left that blacks, women, and union members are their special constituency and they go nuts if anyone in any of those categories thinks for them self and becomes a conservative. Then they can't be authentically black or a women, etc.
They are subject to particularly intense personal attacks because the Dems can't allow anyone to just wander off the ranch.
Winning elections is going to be increasingly harder for them once people in those categories start to really consider what the Democrats have done for them after all these years and all those contributions.
When fair minded people see the bias in the press and the unfair handling of issues and candidates the Democratic party will have wholesale departure from the ranks of the faithful. The Jews have already started migrating away from the Democrats. I expect the Hispanics and blacks to be next. Then the married women and later the unmarried women. The union rank and file members already are shifting away from the union bosses.
Not a good prospect for Democratic candidates this next November. Obama is dragging them all down. That's why many of them don't appear at the Obama rallies now.
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The right attacks Obama and "it's not about race!"
The left attacks Cain and suddenly it's okay to play the race card.
Would it kill you to be even the slightest bit consistent, Gary?
Anonymous,
That's right. We criticize Obama for his policies. Go back and watch the comments of Belafonte, Toure, West and the others. They are the ones who put race front and center.
Toure probably IS a smug, arrogant jerk. He probably thinks Cain is some kind of a race traitor -- as if the notion of "race" were anything but a cheap ploy by a cabal of Hispanic men who saw a way to get rich off of it, which was picked up by a cabal of Anglos with the same motive. Why do these guys want to cling to an identity IMPOSED on their ancestors for the sole purpose of denying them their full share in the dominion over the earth?
But what does it really matter? These sideshows are not the real reason Cain is incompetent to be president.
Republicans might actually have gained a good share of "black" voters by now, if the party hadn't poisoned its street cred be eagerly embracing the entire racist wing of the Democratic Party, and all those who really do hate black people, but don't say so out loud any more.
Gary, you don't play the race card, but on the other hand, you don't attack Obama for his policies. Like the pseudo-left culture vultures piling on Cain, you stir up any little faux scandal you can find. It is kind of juvenile all around. But I think God will save the republic -- just not in any way any of us have anticipated.
The 90 percent black vote for Democrats is like money in the bank on election day. A prominent black conservative who offers an alternative view of the world is a serious danger politically, because if that alternative view has the net effect of reducing the black vote for Democrats just to 75 percent, the Democrats are in big trouble at election time.
In this political context, merely defeating a black conservative at the polls or at confirmation hearings is not enough. He must be destroyed as an influence in the future — and character assassination is the most obvious way to do it.
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is an ivory tower pointy headed intellectual who doesn't know beans about what is happening on the street. That, not his conservatism, is why few Americans of African descent pay attention to what he says. For that matter, few Americans who choose to think of themselves as "white" do either. He has a small following among faux conservatives who think playing the race card is going to get them somewhere.
In case you hadn't noticed Miggie, there were some awfully pale faced working class Americans on the platform with Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Trends flow in many directions. Dropping from 90% to 75% of the "black vote" is only a disaster if there are not flows of various other constituencies the other way, and there are.
In 1960, two thirds of the students at many liberal arts colleges supported Richard M. Nixon for president.
Sowell is one of the brightest minds we have, Siarlys. You only think that you are.
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