Not An Uncle Tom (But You Can Pick Another Relative)

Herman Cain saw Lee Daniels' The Butler and came away with a slightly-different message than most blacks:

  "Right now, it's not looking too good. Those who have spent their lives committed to the struggle do not betray that commitment by acknowledging that this is the truth. Indeed, they honor it. We can do better than this."

So black people, by pulling down a president (we view as) under attack from whites, we're honoring those who whites destroyed.

Obama Would Have Been Impeached if He Was White

Glad to hear it.

Black people are never electing Herman Cain to anything,…

 

The Great Divide: Race From Slavery To Shut-Up

"The system of slavery as experienced by African Americans and enforced by whites influenced the very shape of the city, including the building of its infrastructure, the legal system created to support it, and the economic life of the city and its rural surroundings."

"The slave trade was one of the issues his curious friends would return to time and again,...slavery was considered a completely normal practice throughout large parts of the world at the time. And only a pious lunatic fringe seemed to take offense."

"Clearly ... [Bessie's] walking off the movie set was a statement of principle. Opportunist though she was about her career, she was never an opportunist about race. She had no intention of perpetuating the derogatory image most whites had of most blacks."

It makes some kind of weird sense that I'd be squashed, somehow, between Herman Cain and Suge Knight:

"8 Interesting Reasons Some Blacks Reject to Being Called ‘African-American’"

"McCain joked that he had returned to the same lunch counter 20 years later and still couldn’t get served."

"New idea for Mormon missionaries: Serve more, preach less"

You've Got Experience - Mine's Black - And That's Weird

Months After an Assassination Attempt, a Bangladeshi Atheist Blogger is Still Speaking Out

The Dark Side of "I Have a Dream": The FBI's War on Martin Luther King

"I came up with Ruckus before the Tea Party, and before Herman Cain. But in the post-Obama era, half the country became Uncle Ruckus. The world is more polarized and extreme. Ruckus embodies that. I remember watching CNN when Herman Cain was the frontrunner for the Republican party, and they did a segment on whether Herman Cain was Uncle Ruckus. [Ed. note: This segment is no longer available online.] They brought in an expert and had pictures of them side by side... I couldn’t believe what I was watching. When Ruckus was first introduced, he felt like a funny, fringe character. He was bizarre and really extreme. Now, he feels like he represents a lot of right wing ideology. It’s crazy, but the times caught up to him."

Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity

"Police said Vincent Bright is religious and took the body in hopes his father would be resurrected."

An Atheist Islamist Takeover? (Newt, Go Away)

The Daily Show - Indecision 2012 - Base Race - Bachmann, Cain & Gingrich
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Herman Cain: Reality Scares The NewAge Left

I like how, after Sarah Palin spoke of there being a "real" America, now Herman Cain is describing himself as a "real" black man:

"The liberal mainstream media, notice how they have tried to destroy Sarah Palin. Notice how the more popular Michele Bachmann gets, the more they try to destroy her. You want to know why they go after those two ladies more viciously? Because they know that Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin is going to draw a lot of the women vote away from the Democrat Party. They are scared to death of that, if they were to run and get the nomination. They are doubly scared that a real black man might run against Barack Obama."

Kind of makes you wonder - after the election of Oprah's candidate, and all the rest of the NewAge talking-to-the-dead nonsense we've been surrounded by, recently - if the message isn't finally getting out (now that everything's going to Hell) that there might be some worth in reality, huh?

Herman: “Stupid People Are Ruining America”

Now there's a man who can give a speech,...and with a claim we endorse mightily.