is this a concession that those who called him an Uncle Tom are themselves racists?.......the person you claim we are marginalizing has done so.......
What? Everyone knows, I'm the one who called Herman Cain an Uncle Tom, and I explained why, ad nauseam. First of all, it's hardly racist of me, a black man, to point out the racism (i.e. preference of one race over another....in Herman Cain's case, "white over black") in another black man. Telling the truth about an individual could hardly be seen as "racist". The view that all or most blacks are stupid, criminal, lazy or parasitic is racist because it's not true....what is true can never be viewed as "racist".
First of all, HC was accused of playing the race card, when he charged up Rick Perry on his racially-charged named hunting grounds, which he justifiable did (i.e.
http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2011/10/03/herman-cain-plays-the-race-card/)
But then, baffled and embarrassed by the Republican backlash, who employed Reagan's "11th commandment" ("Thou shalt never speak ill of another Republican....even though the Republican indeed deserves it), he backpedaled, and hung his head, closed his mouth about the incident, and deflected all questions about it, like a good little Stephin Fetchit.
Chris P. Bacon, a blogger posted on TheCitizen.com, back in March:
He's Back..."Colorblind" Herman Cain Plays the Race Card Banjo While Stumping to Republicans in New Hampshire
The levels of hypocrisy demonstrated by Cain and his supporters in this moment are so glaring as to almost not merit comment for they are so utterly obvious. Presumably, Conservatives are colorblind. Yet, race is central--as it was in his minstrelesque CPAC speech several weeks ago--to Cain's performance. Again, Herman Cain suggests that he is "one of the good ones." Ultimately, Herman Cain is not like "those other blacks over there."
... public opinion data from sources as varied as the New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, the Pew Research Center, and the University of Washington all indicate that the Tea Party GOP is racially homogeneous, more likely to believe that black people are not hard working and are less intelligent than whites, that too much is made of "racial discrimination," and that white people are oppressed in America.
Dr. Boyce Watkins, who writes for Black Voices (
http://www.bvblackspin.com/2011/03/14/herman-cain-plays-the-race-card-against-barack-obama/) wrote:
" Recently, Cain was asked about race during a New Hampshire campaign speech. When asked about this controversial topic, Cain had this to say:
"Now people are over this first black president thing," he said. "But there are some people who will say, 'I'm not going to vote for another black guy because this one didn't work out. And my response is, 'Well, what about those 43 white guys you put in there? How did they work out? Don't condemn me because the first black one was bad."
Let's be clear, I don't agree with Herman Cain. I have a difficult time appreciating any African American who panders for votes by effectively saying, "I stand with you in your disdain for the way black people behave. I assure you that I'm different from the rest of them." Such a divide-and-conquer political strategy has been used since we had the house negro/field negro divide during slavery (there is no faster route to the top of the political heap than by becoming a black Republican). Rather than using hatred toward President Obama as a weapon for his own political advancement, Cain might be more respectable if he simply stood on his own credentials (as his fellow conservative Colin Powell might do). Being a black conservative presidential candidate doesn't mean you have to disrespect the first black president."
So let's be clear. Cain is willing to use the tactics of "divide and conquer", "innuendo", and gross pandering to get to the top. He is willing to exacerbate and promote the stereotypes conservative whites have of blacks, at the expense of blacks in order to secure the nomination. The very Republican Party itself, is engaged in "voter suppression" in key states, with their Voter I.D. law initiatives. Personally, I can't think of anything more racist than the aforementioned. Herman Cain, in this instance is the very epitome of what it means to be an "Uncle Tom".