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Well, clearly Herman Cain has never been to suburban Raleigh, where the black middle class abounds.
Maybe that's his point. While black families continue to claw their way up to affording that 1800 square foot house in the burbs, white families continue to build upon the money they've had for generations.
I don't understand what is wrong with this guy. He catering to people (racist) who hate him and will always hate him because of his skin color. I really don't see his angle here.
An intelligent politician would stay away from the issue of race unless back into a corner. Its too complicated of an issue for someone to make a blanked statement. Barrack Obama did an okay job when he felt he was backed into a corner over it but If I remember he just said "we need to talk"
No we are not going to wake up color blind one day nor is there going to a race war.
Politicians like Cain are too used to speaking in board rooms and to a bunch of brown nosers to think before he speaks like a politician. Most black people in the Tea Party are probably middle class but most black middle class people would not chose the party as their party of choice.
Maybe politicians should use social scientist as advisers if they don't already do so. Someone like Cornell West.
How can you determine what kind of impact a book has on a person? I know it was the 2nd best selling book after the Bible; but considering a large number of black people couldn't even read at the time how do you think it had an impact on them?
The book heighten awareness especially in the North about slavery. Which as a result heighten tensions between North and South which led to the war. A war that led to the emancipation of Black slaves. Even if Blacks couldn't read the book back then (many whites couldn't read either) it still had an impact on black lives.
You Lefties are nuts. You are howling about Cain not appealing to blacks, meanwhile all Obama does is target minorities, he even says so when he is doing it.
Actually, I HAVE read Uncle Tom's cabin. Ok, I'll give his first act (choosing to accept being sold to protect his family) but all the rest was like he was some kind of lackey for the whites. So, if you wish to be a lackey to people of higher postions (which I'll already guessing you are) that feel free to be an uncle tom. Matter of fact, I take that back. Be an Uncle Rukus.
So what would you prefer him being a Nat Turner like character?
That article is hilarious. It manages to say everything about Obama's rebuke other than that maybe, just maybe... he could be reflecting on his own absentee father. What a revolutionary thought.
While I agree that some of his white voters would have seen his speech through that guise, I don't think talking about absentee black fathers when he has one himself is particularly uncle-tomish. Now, I wouldn't say that his father wasn't there for him for the same cultural reasons that there's a lot of African American absentee fathers - and a lot of American absentee fathers in general - but that probably has at least 50% to do with why he made the speech.
You extrapolating too much and putting words in his mouth to excuse what he said. If said by Herman Cain or Clarence Thomas would be deemed as sell out talk by many Blacks. In fact Bill Cosby was pilloried for saying exactly the same exact thing as Obama by many Blacks
He was running for office and threw blacks under the bus to make headway with whites.
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I know it was the 2nd best selling book after the Bible; but considering a large number of black people couldn't even read at the time how do you think it had an impact on them?
