Posted on 10/02/2011 6:31:14 AM PDT by decimon
The increasingly absurd charges of racism — like the one leveled at Rick Perry’s reference to a “black cloud” of debt, or Morgan Freeman’s wholesale imputation — seem to have commentators stumped: at least those commentators who still operate on the basis of logic and evidence. Mona Charen points to the obvious, like the support for tea party favorite Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll. I made similar observations in 2009, when I covered Cain’s Tea Party gathering in Cobb County and his announcement rally in May in Atlanta.
I learned something in May when I attended Cain’s announcement rally with a black friend. Spotting my friend’s Uncle Sam hat and Cain buttons, another black man who was otherwise at the park struck up a conversation. They discussed just how much pressure black conservatives feel from fellow blacks.
It has not always been this way, and it is no accident. White radicals have been fostering this kind of behavior for nearly a hundred years. Divide and conquer according to class — no less for blacks than for whites — has been the modus operandi of the left since at least the 1920s.
As the black middle class grew after World War II, radicals had to resort to increasingly absurd claims to make the charge that things were getting worse. Ignoring the statistical evidence, they scoured the ghettoes and trotted out the criminal and down-and-out black as representative of black America. The influential white writer Norman Mailer valorized the black criminal in his 1957 pamphlet “The White Negro.”
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Their strategy is divide and conquer.
Are you kidding?? The Democrats have been going down this road since before the American Civil War!
***they scoured the ghettoes and trotted out the criminal and down-and-out black as representative of black America***
Despicable and effective.
Mr. Cain will render MSM and their ilk impotent.
Herman Cain not only transcends racial differences but politics as well. He loves this country. He looks beyond our differences and party poltucs. He is truly a problem solver.
go above the talking heads. Go to YouTube and Google his name. He will absolutely blow you away.
I should say first that there has never been a political candidate to make me cheer. That said, Cain is right now looking better than the rest.
I think the 9-9-9 thing is probably no better than any other scheme for improving the tax system but I don't think that's going anywhere, anyway. If elected he'll likely have to drop that scheme and do what he can to improve what we have.
Except the colors have switched. In the 1930s, North Carolina had the Scottsboro Boys. More recently, North Carolina had the Duke Lacross players. Only the colors have switched.
Democrats in North Carolina in the 1930's wanted to keep blacks down, keep 'em on the plantation. Don't let them get too big. That's what the Scottsboro Boys was about.
Democrats in the US in the 21st century are overseeing massive black unemployment, a growing wealth gap between the races, and increasing racial tension like I've never seen before in my life. And the Democrats see these results, and they are re-doubling their efforts in this direction.
You say the colors have switched. I say the methodology has switched -- but the song remains the same.
Divide and conquer according to class — no less for blacks than for whites
— has been the modus operandi of the left since at least the 1920s.
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since reconstruction the democrats have diminished the blacks while telling them they’re embracing them.
BFLR
Oh they’ve got the Cain thing covered:
Don’t support Cain? You’re a racist!
Support Cain? You’re a racist!
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