Herman Cain plays the "black experience" card...

[one_voice]

You can say this about Herman Cain's presidential bid: he's not going to resort to boring soundbites.

The Republican hopeful 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. " 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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/herman-cain-obama-never-p_n_1005424.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

[geardaddy]

1. What an idiot.

[dkf]

2. Well he has a point. Pretty minimal black presence in Hawaii, especially Punahou.

[one_voice]

5. Obama's basketball coach...

used the "n" word in front of him. I believe that's the ultimate black experience.

Obama records his interior struggle with precision and clarity as he confronts racism (a high school basketball coach calls a group of black men "niggers'') while maintaining love for his white relatives

http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/barack-obama/dreams-from-my-father/#review

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. IIRC that has also been contested...

[KamaAina]

16. Minimal, perhaps, but long-standing.

Ever since the armed forces were integrated, plenty of African American servicemembers have been posted to Hawai'i. Long before that, anti-royalists spread rumors that H.H.M. David Kalakaua, who had darker skin than his Kamehameha predecessors, had actually been fathered by one John Poppin, a black coachman employed by the palace.

Punahou? Well, duh. Find me an elite prep school that has more than a minimal black presence.

[MadMaddie]

3. Don't even know where to start with this

I don't know...the slave in the masters house maybe...what an idiot

[Raschel]

7. The male sarah palin.

[WI_DEM]

4. Cain's experience? selling pizza that tasted like the cardboard boxes they came in

[Raschel]

6. You don't have to have Black people around you to have the "Black experience".

Cain is quite hateful. He's stirring that pot pretty hard.

"Black experience...." It's not the President's fault Herb's dad told him to sit at the back of the bus.

As for baiting the President, good luck. He has too much dignity.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. My daughters were told otherwise by a school counselor

Told her she was not "black enough" to qualify for minority oriented scholarships since she was not raised black and did not act black.

[XemaSab]

14. What does "acting black" mean?

You have to act like ghetto trash in order to be authentically black, and to qualify for scholarships?

I'm sure that's news to the tens of millions of black professionals in this country. :eyes:

[Number23]

17. Wow. You took a mighty interesting leap just then, didn't you?

You have to act like ghetto trash in order to be authentically black,

Who said that? Besides you?

[XemaSab]

22. Did you read the comment that I was responding to?

I'm saying that Barack Obama "acts black" every day of his life.

Ditto for Herman Cain, Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Lil' Kim, Oprah Winfrey, MC Hammer, Gwen Ifill, Tyler Perry, and every other black person on the planet.

Just saying that someone who is black is somehow not "acting black" is in itself a racist statement.

[Number23]

24. Right, but your comment was not in any way relative to that poster's comment

She said her daughter was accused of not "acting black" and you immediately jumped in with "does she need to act like ghetto trash."

The counselor's comment was definitely racist. But you don't have any idea what her definition of "acting black" was, particularly as we find out that she was black herself. So your immediate conclusion that it must mean she was saying the girl needed to act like "ghetto trash" was a bit odd.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

21. We had the same question

She had tried to get that daughter suspended/expelled for an off campus incident where three other students jumped her and lost very dramatically. She blamed my daughter for not understanding African American culture and said that she should have taken the beat down. We had just returned from a considerable time overseas but did not buy it one bit.

[MadMaddie]

27. Exactly! This was a jab at educated blacks...

Cain attacked the Proffessor too....he is the worst of the worst enemy within..

[Number23]

18. Your daughter's school counselor is a racist idiot

I shudder at the thought of people like that having the education and lives of children of color in their hands.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

19. That counselor was an African-American woman

We had not gotten along with her since we started at the school. It was pre Obama. Had it been more recent, it might not have come up that way. Oh yeah we filed complaints...

[Number23]

20. Good for you.

Really glad to hear you filed complaints.

Black people can be some of the most oppressive people in the world towards EACH OTHER sometimes. The idea that someone would try to make your daughter feel that she's not authentically black is outrageous.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

23. It was not a fun time...made us question if we should have returned them to US schools

Racism is not limited to any race...seen that with my own eyes overseas

[Number23]

25. Well, being culturally oppressive is not the same as being racist imo

But I definitely understand where you're coming from and what you're saying.

[SomethingFishy]

9. Hey his new name is "Herman I have no facts to back this up Cain"

Get it straight will ya!

Quote:

'I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these (Occupy Wall Street) demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!' he said during a campaign stop recently.

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/herman-cain-if-you-cant-get-elected-blame-yourself-131509488.html#ixzz1aVnNNSo4

[TheBigotBasher]

11. Suddenly

[joeybee12]

12. That is great...

I think I'll borrow it!

[TheBigotBasher]

13. Feel free.

Spread it.

[joeybee12]

15. Thanks I will...it will get e-mailed around tonight!

[jmowreader]

26. What Cain really meant...

"It would be no contest," Cain said. "Although I don't really like to admit it, Obama would stomp me into the fucking ground if I went head-to-head against him. Do you seriously think the Republicans who are working so hard to get the black guy out of the White House are going to vote for me?"