Posted on 10/09/2011 1:00:43 PM PDT by justsaynomore
Presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that he didn’t believe racism was a major factor holding minorities back in America, asserting instead that African Americans had a level playing field on which to advance economically.
“I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way,” Cain said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Are there some elements of racism? Yes. It gets back to if we don't grow this economy, that is a ripple effect for every economic level, and because blacks are more disproportionately unemployed, they get hit the worst when economic policies don't work. That's where it starts.”
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Just checked comments on CNN.......Cain is supported by close to 50% of the posters. Checked CBS, Yahoo, the last couple of days.........Many supporters on these, often hostile sites.
The times they are a changin!
He is winning over many doubters......Cain IS the real deal!
the inner city black slaves of the democrat plantation
must be wondering what this cain is about.
As I recall, Cain tweeted not too long ago that it had been suggested, but he was sticking with $5 Fridays on the KISS principle.
That’s a great idea. Email it to the Cain campaign!
Actually, there is - a grassroots group came up with this:
http://www.raisingsomecain.net
Cain has a 5-dollar Fridays that has been extremely successful too
Yet and still, most Blacks know exactly what Cain is saying, even if Larry O'Donell doesn't.
I hope so, because there is a large group of us praying very hard over Herman Cain, that God both lead him and will use him to open people’s eyes.
The Black left just dismiss him as an Uncle Tom, preferring instead the comforts of Generational welfare via the Democratic philosophy as government being the primary Provider.
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” - Booker T Washington (1911)
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Silver Bullet for Count Sharp-ula.
The black left LEADERS and MEDIA do - but many black people are listening.
Great quote!!
While Cain’s statement is absolutely true, it won’t win him votes from a certain segment of black people. The last thing the perpetually unemployed black person wants to hear is that he, himself, is to blame for his poor performance. That would mean that if he just got off his a$$, and work harder, he might succeed. Those who are perpetually unemployed, living on taxpayers, simply don’t want to work. So this TRUTH doesn’t sit well with them.
You are the privileged White Male keeping Blacks from their hopes and dreams according to the left.
So Barack Obama doesn't care about black people? Anyone seen Kanye West?
You are right.
I don’t think Cain is speaking to the “inner-city blacks” so much as the rest of the black community that has been asking themselves for a while, “How in the world do we decouple ourselves from the inner-city trainwreck and our imputed ties with the welfare plantation?”
Cain has said he thinks he can get 30% of the black vote.
The interviewer asked him, boo hoo, what about the rest of the black community. Cain replied something like “you save those who want to be saved.”
Cain’s message, the message of conservatism, will appeal to those who do want to achieve more in life than taking a EBT card and hanging in the hood.
LOL. Yeah, why is Kanye so quiet with the high unemployment amongst black people, he should call out barrack.
There is a certain segment of blacks and whites who won’t be saved. But there are blacks who work, just as whites who work, who have some disdain for those who sit around on their backsides and blame everyone else for their problems.
It’s just not cool being a “Conservative Black”, can’t blame anyone.
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