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Talking about race for political advantage is passé.
Conservatives immediately turned the narrative that way once the Cain allegations became public.
Not everyone on the Republican side appreciates the tactic.
"I think we need to get past the language of race on both sides," Condoleeza Rice, President George W. Bush's secretary of state, told Sean Hannity.
Black conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, who worked for Thomas when he headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said some Republicans are put off by Cain's claims of racism because they hate it when they are accused of being racist.
"Why is the first response from some conservatives that this must have to do with Cain's race? That makes them guilty of the same race-baiting we accuse Democrats of," Williams said.
Before his current troubles, Cain did not shy away from using race as a talking point, much to the consternation of liberal and independent blacks.
He said blacks have been "brainwashed" into voting for Democrats in large numbers and he eschewed using the term "African-American," preferring to call himself an "American black conservative."
He maligned Obama's mixed-race identity, saying the president "has never been part of the black experience in America" and that Democrats are "doubly scared that a real black man might run against Barack Obama."
"I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way," Cain told CNN in October.
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