Black Like Me
GOP Candidate Herman Cain schmoozes with a Right-Wing radio talk show host who made the following statement (among other more vile remakrs).
(Neal) BOORTZ: We got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I’ll tell you what it’s gonna take. You people, you are – you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta.
The Boortz rant was full of race based coded language.
Herman Cain is obviously buoyed by his rise among one very sad group of candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.Candidate Cain has stated to a documented racist, that, “[Obama's] never been a part of the black experience in America.” Cain spoke the comment to Neal Boritz who next to Rush Limbaugh is without a doubt a ‘second tier’ racist.
Cain has entertained the Right such they he has avoided complete rejection from a party that has shown little to no interest in voter appeal beyond its predominately baby-boomer ‘older white’ base.
Race is never an easy issue to discuss; to do so requires deep thought and proper levels of emotionalism. Even for me, an African American.
That said, discussion of race is one thing, playing the race card is never an acceptable set of behaviors. Maybe it is worthwhile to post an Urban Dictionary definition of ‘the race card’….
The “race card” is in play any time someone uses the issue of race to benefit their position or defend their actions, and is used in such a way to construe that someone is being racist.
Often people use “playing the race card” against African-Americans who have leveled a charge of racism (or bigotry). Whether the charge has merit or not, “playing the race card” is a defensive statement to make a point against the charge of racist. Notice the definition above also includes another set of words.
The “race card” is in play any time someone uses the issue of race to benefit their position….
Take a moment and follow the latest absolute offensive remark for Cain.
The Republican hopeful (Cain) and former pizza chain CEO was interviewed by the conservative radio talk show host Neal Boortz, and was asked about what a head-to-head general election contest with President Obama might look like. “It would almost be no contest,” Cain opined.
Boortz suggested that Cain would be able to talk about the black experience in America. “[Obama's] never been a part of the black experience in America,” Cain said.
Cain, whose scheduler refers to him as ‘Cornbread,’ appeared on Neal Boortz’s radio show ahead of tonight’s Republican debate. Of course, I do not know the genesis of the word “Cornbread” but sounds like a ‘ticket to ride,’ to me.
“Cornbread?” Cain is what I call a ‘differentiator.’ “If I separate myself just enough from the flock, to have this other set of crows like me, I might win something.”
Is living through Cain’s ‘black experience’ somehow makes “Cornbread,” any different being called, “Stymie” (the “Little Rascals”).
As a matter of chronological destruction, Cain has seriously damaged himself in the black community. He has lumped 2/3′s of the black community into that Democratic State of Mind: brainwashed. He has taken a shot at people who have not become wealthy, as not working hard enough to become ‘rich’. Cain has actually stepped into a puddle, by declaring that racism is not a hiring hindrance, or a career, or social detriment to people who suffer from racism from people exercise ‘conferred with privilege’. Now Cain, performs what is nothing shy of a lewd and vile characterization of the President of the United States of America. He does so while speaking with a confirmed racist and he does so for expediency.
“[Obama's] never been a part of the black experience in America,” Cain said.
Not only is his comment bombastic and thoroughly “insensitive”‘, it is guttural considering the high office he hopes to win in 2012.
Herman Cain doesn’t play the race card, he IS the race card and the Republican party plays him.