Posted on 10/23/2011 6:58:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
This has been a very long day. My poor little Boston Terrier needs my attention. I’m sorry if I became a little testy. God bless.
Agreed.
I don’t consider it my job to prove I’m not racist.
Rabid allegations by brainless liberals don’t merit wasting time arguing with them.
I hope Cain continues to do well.
“Cain Nomination Would End GOP Race Issue Forever”
And I suppose the Emancipation Proclamation doesn’t count because Lincoln didn’t free all the slaves. He only free slaves in the States that were “in rebellion against the United States”, except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans in Louisiana.
But more contemporaneously, just how do we define “black” today?
When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison can write an October 1988 New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president”, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”? And when Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, can tell us in a widely read autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?
When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”?
Indeed, on October 20, 2011, Pam Spaulding at Firedoglake wrote about two prominent Republicans who happen to be black:
“But back to race. I’ll never understand Herman Cain and his relationship to the GOP establishment; like former puppet Michael Steele, they don’t see (or don’t care) how rancid race-based politics in the Republican party has become… [T]he Republican leadership has made its bed with the fundamentalists and nativist know-nothings, making Cain and other black Republicans curious cases that border on self-loathing.”
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien writes of a private meeting in 2007 with Jesse Jackson in her book, “The Next Big Story.” During the meeting, Jackson complained to O’Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren’t any black anchors on CNN. She wrote, “He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right hand. He shakes his head. “You don’t count,” he says.” She closed the section with “[t]he arbiter of blackness had weighed in. I had been measured and found wanting.”
When the results of an August 2010 Missouri ballot proposition directing that state to protect its citizens from being forced into ObamaCare were announced and the voter sentiment scored a record for beings such a lopsided adoption of the provision, Juan Williams complained on Fox News this was really about race.
And Dr. Cornel West, whose official web site describes him as “a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual”, was the subject of an article in the May 18, 2011 Washington Post. Reporter Krissah Thompson opened with, “Scholar Cornel West’s scathing critique of President Obama’s liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.”
References to race, and especially to “black”, in all these contexts, is clearly not about “race”. It is about ideology, socialist ideology.
As far as I am concerned, we are all made in the image of God. I agree with Martin Luther King, that people should be judged on the content of their character and not on the color of their skin. With respect to BHO: it is not about the race he was born with, it is about the ideology he adopted. It is not what percent black he is, it is about how thoroughly red he is. Sadly, in the minds of many liberals (er, now “progressives”), Herman Cain is not black.
Soon please.
We can't win that issue no matter what.
C’mon, Normy. For someone who claims to have Cain as his second choice, you go out of your way to bash him and align yourself with the hardcore Perrybots. Anybody who claims to support Perry as a “Conservative” has precious little credibility to criticize true Conservative candidates.
We should be so lucky
Wat race issue?
So what?
That sure ended the GOP race issue forever. /s
I wonder if he likes to go fishing. That I consider a sign of character.
Black America’s divide over Obama
St. Petersburg Times | October 21, 2011 | Bill Maxwell
Posted on 10/23/2011 7:28:08 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2796970/posts
That's about as absurd as it gets.
If you are concerned about absurdity, forget the “Race” fixation all together. Laying the GOP/Race issue to bed forever, is about as important as coming up with biodegradable Titanium right now.
We have a country to save dude.......
The MSM hasn’t “tested” Herman Cain FULLY on the issue of affirmative action, yet. I’m not excluding how the MSM tried to trip up Herman on possible Islam individuals in a Cain administration. I’m focusing on how the MSM will talk about Herman’s life and how the MSM will attempt to connect affirmative action to all of Herman’s successes in life as well as ask why Herman will do all that he can do to get rid of affirmative action, after it worked so well for Herman (Why is Herman being so mean to all other minorities who, also, want to become just as successful in their lives through affirmative action, just like Herman?)?-This is coming Herman’s way, folks, and Herman needs to answer this correctly and not screw up!
Well, if Cain did get nominated, yes indeed, the Democrats would scream like maniacs. But you seem to concede their point, that Cain is an Uncle Tom. fact is, though, that Cain is ore able to repeal their attacks than Thomas was or is. He is not married to a white woman. And more, he has already SAID that he is willing to point a finger at Obama and remind us how much of an Oreo Obama really is. That said, Yes, Cain still has to win this on his own merits, and he is still fighting and uphill battle against the Establishment’s efforts to cram Mr. Status Quo down our throats. Cain is the closest thing were are going to get to an anti-establishment figure. Paul might have a chance if he weren’t so old. Believe me: men his age don’t have the stamina to be president. Reagan was on his last legs that last two years in office.
Republicans don’t elect people because of race or gender - but on their merits.
I see the author’s point.
And I am inclined to support Cain at this point. In fact, enthusiastically!
But I don’t support voting for anyone based on the color of their skin.
Because after Cain is elected, liberals will become rational and fair-minded.
Leftists are liars, and they aren’t going to give up the their racist accusations, just because they are wrong.
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