“My gosh, [Cain] is certainly one of us, far more so than Barack Obama,” Sowell said,

[Erose999]

"One of us," of course, means Black people.

Courtesy of Fucker KKKarlson's blog, The Daily Caller:

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On Thursday’s broadcast of “Cavuto” on the Fox Business Network, Hoover Institution senior fellow Thomas Sowell said former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, who grew up in Atlanta in the 1960s, had origins more closely associated with civil rights struggles than President Barack Obama’s.

“My gosh, is certainly one of us, far more so than Barack Obama,” Sowell said, ”raised in Hawaii and going to a private school — an expensive private school”

Discussing his own upbringing, Sowell said that despite not having “a lot of frills” like electricity, central heating or running water, he was fortunate to have a family. Sowell pegged his success to his parents’ habit of pushing him to get a good education.

“I was born into a family where people did not have any education beyond elementary school,” Sowell said, “but they were people who wanted me to have education … When I was eight years old we moved to New York in Harlem. And they were tremendously concerned that I should get a good education.”

His move to New York City, Sowell said, happened to come at a time when New York City schools were among the country’s best.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/20/thomas-sowell-on-cains-ethnicity-he-is-certainly-one-of-us-far-more-so-than-barack-obama/#ixzz1bQ3HhaZS < / the stupid >


Its a known fact that although Herb Cain grew up in Atlanta in the 1960's, he had absolutely ZERO involvement in the Civil Rights movement. Also, listen to that douche Cavuto take on an affect when he says "you were 'po".

[CarmanK]

1. REV AL said it best! He wouldn't vote for Cain against a white man!

Rev Al said it best. Cain may have had more traditional background, and no interracial bloodline, but he wouldn't vote for the man if he were running against a white man. Cain is a phony.

[rfranklin]

4. He is a loony Tea Party Republican and race has nothing to do with it unless...

you are a racist Republican looking for way to disguise and excuse your racism.

[Salviati]

2. Herman Cains close association with the civil rights struggle due to growing up in Atlanta

is like Sarah Palins foreign policy experience because she could see Russia from her house.

[creon]

3. no

Sowell is entitled to his opinion.
As is everyone else.

I regard Cain as a vanity candidate, little different from Gingrich or Nader.

[bigtree]

5. just goes to show you

. . . how diverse and biased the 'black' opinion can be. NONE of these folks who claim to represent all black Americans or are qualified to judge each others' 'blackness'. Sowell's made his living being a critic, not accomplishing a fraction of the public service of the folks he writes against -- often those very folks who actually work to make a difference in his old community.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Thomas Sowell? The black guy the right wing fawns over?

The right trots him out whenever they need a useful tool.

Rush Limbaugh used get so excited he'd practically soil himself whenever Sowell made a comment on something in the news.

[DaveJ]

7. Lots of poor people get ahead by getting an education...

...and using their education to the benefit of society, not by creating minimum wage jobs with no benefits.

[Erose999]

9. Or taking over companies and laying people off like Herb Cain...

His modus operandi is pretty much the same wherever he's been in the corporate world. Once he gets control he will shed any of the appendages that are struggling. Massive layoffs.

Also, when he was chairman/CEO of the National Restaurant Association, he lobbied against minimum wage increases and unions.

[DaveJ]

11. Another one with 3rd world aspirations

There are not enough HS kids to fill the minimum wage jobs they would like to create.

It amazes me how so many people have no concept of public good whatsoever. It's no wonder anyone with the slightest vision is considered a genius and revolutionary.

[Erose999]

13. They want to deport all the undocumented workers so Americans can do farm labor. 12 hrs min. wage &

no bennies. Oh, and its only 5 or 6 months out of the year and you'll have to commute from the suburbs to a rural area.

Yeah, I can just see people lining up for those jobs...

Or not. Crops are rotting on the vine in GA. and Al. this year. They can't even use prison labor to get that work done.

[wilt the stilt]

8. there is a hint of truth to that

but that is where it ends. If anyone gets into an argument on this with a repub on this point, I would use this. The Civil Rights fight was for the soul of the country. It was about the constitution and all it stands for. Cain had a decision to make. It was himself or the soul of the country. He decided for himself and then benefited from everything else that people died for. He has never said thank you. As JFK said "Ask not what your country can do for you Ask what can you do for our country" Herman said me me me.

[MrScorpio]

10. It's funny that Sowell would say this about Cain:

"Thomas Sowell said former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, who grew up in Atlanta in the 1960s, had origins more closely associated with civil rights struggles than President Barack Obama’s." One, because Cain didn't diddly squat during the Civil Rights era when he damn sure could (He said as much in his biography), and two, because, even though Obama was too young to do anything during that era, he certainly worked for social justice when he did come of age.

Basically, Thomas Sowell is full of bull.


Edit: http://www.thegrio.com/black-history/how-herman-cain-sat-out-civil-rights-activism-at-morehouse.php

[Odin2005]

12. Sowell is a total tool, and an asshole.

He is the stereotypical Libertarian type that thinks Liberals are "irrational bleeding hearts" that prefer to ignore the "cold hard truths of Economics".