Posted on 10/16/2011 9:59:46 PM PDT by casablanca
In his Miami Herald column, Leonard Pitts Jr. tackles the issue of whether GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain is a self-loathing black man because of his alignment with the Tea Party. He concludes that the bootstrapper who grew up in the segregated South is uncomfortable in his skin, not because of his Tea Party alignment but because of his own personal ideology.
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 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.
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Is Leonard Pitts a racist bigot?
No, but your nonsensical talking points are about as useful as Cat shampoo.
The way libs see it, a black person can only be proud to be black if he or she advocates dependence on gov’t and engages in nasty, blame-whitey victimhood politics.
They can criticize current conditions in the ghetto, but they still have to vote DemRat to get a pass as being real.
What I’m sure Cain is embarrassed of are the prevalent american-black culture and values, not his skin color.
If I was Cain that is exactly what I would shout. It’s about time we blew the lid off of this reality that everyone tip-toes around.
Is Leonard Pitts embarrassed to be an idiot? Apparently not as he continually spouts his idiocy for all to see.
As a black man and a proud TEA Party conservative I've heard it all. I find it racist to belittle a black man because he doesn't think the way you want or expect him to.
"I refuse to have my views dictated to me as if I were an intellectual slave."~Justice Clarence Thomas
If there’s self hating, it’s blacks like Pitts who answer to The Big Boss White Man
Get a life, Leonard . . you’re a puppet
Pitts like many bigoted Liberals are pissed that Blacks will hold Obama accountable in the next election and youthful Black have pretty much abandon the Hope and Change Train in mass as Uncle Sugar has not come through.
Cain is an example of everything any minority in America could be if they apply themselves through hard work and education. Cain is everything that Obama is not!
Barack Obama made it clear in his ghostwritten autobiographies that he resents having white parentage.
>> youthful Black have pretty much abandon the Hope and Change...
Good.
Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here’s your Change!
Once in three or six years...Pitts swerves into the TRUTH....
But normally he is an ignorant black man.
magic 8 ball says maybe ask later.
What a disgusting piece of turd this Leonard Pitts is. That is a repulsive article demeaning every black and every conservative. I’d fire that summbidge.
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