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Title: The Black Self-Loathing Of Herman Cain
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Baltimore Sun
URL Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/op ... ts-cain-20111016,0,31125.story
Published: Oct 16, 2011
Author: Leonard Pitts
Post Date: 2011-10-16 17:27:02 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4422
Comments: 6
This is for those who keep asking what I think of Herman Cain. In particular, it's for those who want to know what the tea party's embrace of this black businessman turned presidential candidate says about my claim that the tea party is racist.
I might eat the plate of crow those folks proffer if I'd ever actually made that claim. What I have said, fairly consistently, is something more nuanced: Racial animus is an element of tea party ideology, but not its entirety. As I once noted in this space, the tea party probably would not exist if Condoleezza Rice were president.
Modern social conservatives, in my experience, do not hate black people en masse. To the contrary, there are two kinds of blacks they love. The first is those, like Ms. Rice, who are mainly mute on the subject of race, seldom so impolite as to say or do anything that might remind people they are black. The second is those who will engage on race, but only to lecture other blacks for their failures as conservatives conceive them. And that, friends and neighbors, is Herman Cain all over.
"I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way," he told CNN recently. Had he contended too many African-Americans use racism as an excuse for failure to succeed and even failure to try, Mr. Cain would have gotten no grief from me; I've made that argument often.
But what he said was that racism is no longer a factor. He surely warmed the hearts of his conservative fellow travelers who swear blacks have the same opportunity to succeed as whites, if they'd only get off their lazy so-and-sos and do it.
It is a claim spectacularly at odds with reality, given that African-American unemployment runs twice that of whites, given that the Agriculture Department admits to systematically discriminating against black farmers, given documentation of a "justice" system engaged in the mass incarceration of young black men.
But what made the claim truly bizarre is that two days later, Mr. Cain branded himself a victim of racism. Specifically, he said some black people are "racist" because they disagree with his politics. So blacks aren't held back by racism, but Mr. Cain is?
Lord, give me strength.
He thus neatly encapsulates what has become an article of faith for many white conservatives; namely, that it is they, not black and brown people, who are the true victims of bigotry. Mind you, they have not a shred of a scrap of a scintilla of evidence to support this cockamamie idea, but they believe it anyway. And now they find support for their idiocy in this Negro from Atlanta.
One of the least-discussed impacts of the black experience in America is its emotional toll. African-Americans were psychologically maimed by this country, the expression of which can still be seen in the visceral self-loathing that afflicts too many.
Meaning the black child who equates doing well in school with "acting white." Meaning the famous black man who bleaches his skin. Meaning the famous black woman who rationalizes her use of a certain soul-killing racial epithet. Meaning Herman Cain.
In his diminution of African-American struggle, he comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in. He seems embarrassed he's black.
For what it's worth, I suspect black folks aren't real happy about it, either. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade*
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#2. To: Brain Shit (#0)
For what it's worth, I suspect black folks aren't real happy about it, either
Cheyah.....if this pissbag were worth looking at to see who he is I'd bother. Chances are he's either a cracka tard or a knee crawling chain wearing minstrel.
Just read the headline and the last line.
Spit....
Worried aintcha brain shit?
BBBBWWWWWAAAAHHHHHAAAA!!!!
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed)
#3. To: e_type_jag, Brian S (#2)
Chances are he's either a cracka tard or a knee crawling chain wearing minstrel.
Too funny.
But it's "B":
Wiki: Leonard Pitts Jr. (born October 11, 1957) is a politically progressive [self-loathing] African American commentator, journalist and novelist.
Worried aintcha brain shit? BBBBWWWWWAAAAHHHHHAAAA!!!!
LOL, yeah. Good thing the Human Dem Fax Machine is here to disingenuously cover Cain's behind. Meanwhile, here is Plantation-Boy, Lenny Pitt Jr. lynching Herman Cain:
"...Meaning the black child who equates doing well in school with 'acting white.' Meaning the famous black man who bleaches his skin. Meaning the famous black woman who rationalizes her use of a certain soul-killing racial epithet. Meaning Herman Cain.
"In his diminution of African-American struggle, he comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in. He seems embarrassed he's black. For what it's worth, I suspect black folks aren't real happy about it, either. "
What condescending POS racist bullsh*t. Cain flatly rejects the Plantation and victimhood. To point it out like Pitts Jr. means he's "acting black." The REAL irony here is noting THE self-loathing commie-black who's exposed the black "secret code" and who is enraged the plantation is one slave short.
Back to Brian - I guess posting a "Herman Cain is an Uncle Tom" thread by a "legit black man" would have been too trite.
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
One of the things that I've noticed over the last few years is how similar American Leftists and White Supremacists really are.
To a White Supremacist, nothing is worse than being a "race traitor", i.e., a white person who doesn't agree with the supremacists
To an American leftist, nothing is worse than a black conservative, more commonly referred to as a self-loathing black, Oreo, or Uncle Tom.
It's truly amazing how much in common these two groups have.
The Buffet rule -- you can become the world's largest tax cheat and also become an idol of the left at the same time. Just say the right words and it can happen.
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
This is a disgusting article by an author who glorifies that a true black man would be a malt liquor swilling, crack smoking ghetto pimp.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
#6. To: no gnu taxes (#5)
This is a disgusting article by an author who glorifies that a true black man would be a malt liquor swilling, crack smoking ghetto pimp.
Oh, you mean like THIS?
DUMMY DwarF: ...I'm eating a meatball...
Capitalist Eric: Foreplay before the president's staff?
"Whenver the dwarf sees something negative about a Democrat, he tries to change the topic of the thread to something else. Usually a personal attack, followed by mutterings about correct 'grammar' 'spelling' whatever. Anything he can think of to avoid a discussion about a Democrat screwing up or looking bad. It's a decade long pattern." --Badeye observation--
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