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Posted on 11/16/2011 12:03:46 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
National Public Radio proved a long time ago it disdains black conservatives. Remember when NPR's Nina Totenberg launched the unproven sexual harassment charges against Clarence Thomas? NPR doesn't even like black liberals who appear on Fox News: They canned Juan Williams. The sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain aren't ruining him as quickly as the media hoped, so on Nov. 11, NPR viciously attacked Cain for being an enemy of blacks and a "minstrel" to white conservatives.
Reporter Karen Grigsby Bates began with Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy. "Black people know that if Herman Cain had his way, their lives would be diminished," he announced. "And they intuit that Herman Cain's policies are against their interests."
Who is this man to judge like that? NPR made no attempt to identify Professor Kennedy as having served on the editorial board of the hard-left Nation magazine. They didn't even call him "liberal." He is partisan enough to have insisted in April that liberal Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer should retire now because they couldn't survive a two-term Republican president.
Kennedy somehow gets to speak on behalf of all black Americans everywhere, that if Herman Cain "had his way," he would want blacks to be diminished. This is really rich drivel coming from the Left. They are the ones who placed blacks in dangerous public housing, high-rises in high-crime neighborhoods in the "War on Poverty." They are responsible for subjecting black children to atrocious public schools with no chance of escaping to a private school that cared about them. They entrenched a welfare state that chased away black fathers and placed Planned Parenthood clinics in urban neighborhoods for their abortion "needs." But Randall Kennedy and NPR apparently think that's the Nirvana of black interests; Cain is evil for opposing their agenda.
NPR then turned to Jack E. White, a former screed-writer for Time magazine. He also wasn't labeled a liberal, despite working for Time and now for the black liberal website The Root, owned by The Washington Post. NPR's Bates said White was outraged that Cain, like Thomas, would call unproven sexual harassment charges a "high-tech lynching." Bates said, "He believes Cain and his white supporters have struck a bargain."
A racist bargain. "Basically, Herman Cain tells them what they want to hear about blacks, and in turn, they embrace him and say, 'See, that proves we aren't racist,'" said White. Then he stuck in the knife: "He's even willing to be a minstrel for them, referring to, himself sometimes as 'Cornbread,' or quoting his father as speaking ungrammatically, as saying, you know, things like I does not care."
Even Bob Beckel on Fox called the "minstrel" line "obscene." In Jack White's mind, we are forever stuck in 1963, and every white conservative is somehow a Southern Democrat racist Bull Connor. But today's 18-year-old Americans who may turn out to vote for Herman Cain early next year were born in 1993. You can't endlessly suggest that racism is taught in schools, on TV and over every Republican dinner table ... unless you're a crank or a guest on NPR.
The third black Cain critic was a professor named Vincent Hutchings, who said Cain was "crazy," but "crazy like a fox."
There were no black conservative professors allowed -- not Thomas Sowell, or Walter Williams. NPR doesn't want blacks to consider it conceivable that a black could choose to be a conservative and still be considered respectable.
The only conservative view allowed was a clip of Ann Coulter. (NPR somehow couldn't acquire an original interview.) Coulter said on Fox that black conservatives have to swim against a very strong tide of black opinion, so "our blacks are so much better than their blacks."
To which "objective" Bates replied: "Observations like that may be why their blacks are so few in number." Bates clearly believes (as her report demonstrates) that black conservatives are metaphorically owned by masters and simply cannot fathom why blacks would want to be released from the liberal plantation.
Herman Cain may win the Republican nomination, or he may not. But it's quite clear from all the media coverage that the liberal media don't want him even standing on the debate stage. It ruins their preferred caricature of the Republicans as an all-white country club that sees blacks as the people who hand them towels in the restroom.
If they can't push Cain off the stage, then they'll try to smear him into a cartoon minstrel. As so often happens in liberal media circles, the goal of accuracy takes a back seat to victory.
Ask yourself: Would this vitriol against Cain exist if he were white?
Hey, Brent, everybody knows that history stopped in 1963...or was it 1965?
Doesn’t matter.
Black folk signed a deal with Devil in 1965, and look at what happened.
Blacks have been voting Democrat for 50 years - and they’re still poor.
You’d think some one of them would would have this mess figured out by now.
Nope.
But Mr. Cain does.
For one, which black people "know" this? Did someone ask around? Perform peer-reviewed research? Do an unbiased poll or survey?
I didn't think so...
Nothing to see here, folks; please move along...
What?! Whoopi said it's funny ....
They say us conservatives are stuck in the past, but lefties’ minds automatically drift back a couple centuries when discussing race. It’s all Uncle Tom this, minstrel show that, jungle fever, etc.
Problem is the republican establishment is on the same side as NPR.
Mr. Cain is the one candidate that scares those liberals to death. You can see it in their actions. They’re scared to death that Mr. Cain will draw black voters away from obama. I think someone said he could draw at least 20% of the black vote away from obama.
What Brent and Randall really mean is that Herman Cain’s policies would diminish black dependencies on government and the modern day scallywags and pollywogs the DNC has running that plantation like the Kennedy’s and Jacksons and Sharptons of the world.
And they can’t have that. no, they must remain the “Master’s of the Dream,” as Alan Keyes calles them...putting forth an elusive, nver to be realized dream of becoming independent and comfortable thrpough class warfare and taking from others and giving to them.
But they never get there and continue voting for more of the same in the hopes of realizing that “dream: someday...while their master’s dream is realized the whole time by keeping them down.
It seems to me that 95% of blacks are diminishing themselves by not taking personal responsibility.
Good piece by Brent Bozell. That NPR report was absolutely disgusting.
“Minstrel”? That’s flat-out racist. But what do you expect from the left?
Big hit from NPR because Cain wants to defund them! I am for defunding them as well, in a heartbeat. Go Cain!
So the left shows it’s own racism by making an issue over Herman Cain’s race? What fools! It is so stupid it is almost funny!
A minstrel rocket scientist?
Only NPR
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