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If it wasn't an issue to Cain, he wouldn't have called it highly insensitive, offensive, etc. He would have said, "That's not an important issue. I have no comment." He did the opposite.
He answered the question put to him with the same answer Rick Perry gave when the press asked him about it.
"I suggested to my parents that the name on the rock was offensive and should be obliterated" they subsequently visited the camp and painted over the offensive name.
So in this way BOTH Cain AND Perry found the name on the rock offensive but only one is to be called out on the use of that word? C'mon here.
Without knowing your race I will simply ask you this: Do you think the name on the rock is in any way offensive? Do you now feel you are playing a race card after answering?
Here's another question: Ask Herman Cain if he would also consider the name "Honkyswamp" painted on a sign outside a subsidized housing tract offensive? Is he now playing the race card or simply answering the question as put to him and telling it like it is?
Surprise surprise, Cain is pulling the race card. But I guess its ok with his minions.
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Originally Posted by DRob4JC
Agreed - should have been discussed privately.
Kind of a duplicate thread - so I'll just post it here too:
CAIN: "My reaction is that’s just very insensitive…That is a more vile negative word than the N word, and for him to leave it there for as long as he did before I hear that they finally painted over it is just plain insensitive towards a lot of black people in this country"
I don't think it should have been discussed at all. If Cain
want's to call out black insensitivity/racist he has no
better place than to start in his own backyard of GA. Is
he on a podium talking about black rap music...
Critics of Cain think he acts like he's the only one that
is black Stick to the issues Herman ... and fill us in on
your foreign policy, other than "I'll have to talk to
my generals first"
It's unfortunate how this backfired on Herman Cain. I guess he forgot he was guilty of being a black man in the Republican party. I guess the way the GOP has it planned out, if he wants to have a decent showing in the primaries he needs to keep playing the pet negro role by insulting his own race and insist the prejudice evident in the Tea Party/GOP is just fabric of everyone's imagination.
Maybe that would explain why Cain was ABSENT from the Dr. King Memorial ceromony on Sunday?
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Stick to the issues Herman ... and fill us in on
