Dem Strategist: GOP Thinks Cain "A Black Man Who Knows His Place"

[babylonsister]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/28/dem_strategist_cain_a_black_man_who_knows_his_place.html

Dem Strategist: GOP Thinks Cain "A Black Man Who Knows His Place"


"I think he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel that they're not racist because they can like this guy, I think they like him because he’s a black man who knows his place," Democratic strategist and former spokeswoman of the DNC Karen Finney told MSNBC. She was talking about Herman Cain.

[Raschel]

1. She gives him too much credit. Cain is a sell-out who is willing to reinforce stereotypes

about Black Americans in order to pad his pocket.

A true house slave sitting in the master's house, talking trash about the field slaves so he can be comfy.

Perhaps the lesson he learned when his father told him to sit in the back of the bus and avoid trouble was to look out for himself and not to concern himself with the greater good.

That's certainly what he's displaying now. It's your fault if you're poor, it's your fault if you're Black and don't have a job.

It's sick that he's making money from this hate speech.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. That's ...

pretty much the definition of a "Black man that knows his place."

[Number23]

3. Yep.

:thumbsup:

[Marnie]

4. He knows his place.

The black faced court jester, aka fool.

They wouldn't vote for him though.

What he sees as laughing with him is laughing at him. Like Palin and Bachmann he is a token. Palin didn't get the Hillary vote and Cain, if he gets the VP, which is likely, won't get the Black vote.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. He's disgusting. I don't know where Herman helps the party though.

He certainly doesn't seem to be trying to attract African Americans, quite the contrary in fact. So, other than to make racists feel good about themselves, I'm not sure what his purpose is. :shrug:

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Problem is ...

the right is soooo fixated on deflecting their racist core that they think that Black folk will vote for Cain just because he is Black.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. When do you think they'll realize that this is ALL about Herman, and always has been.

He's all but supplanted Ms. Palin, and I'm sure their goals are the same. $$$$$$$.