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By using that word “negra” YOU are pushing things. Mr. Cain may not be the perfect presidential candidate (unlike your plaster saint), but he is a true blue American. I have been following the Perry campaign on FR since August. I will NEVER forget the sadness felt by some Texas freepers that they could no longer refer to Black-Eyed Susans as niggerheads. Then someone (I forget who) audaciously posted a dreadful picture of something called Niggerhead Oysters or something. I was deeply shocked.

It was that day I was against Perry and his camp followers.

While talking with the Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman in January 1984, Jackson referred to New York City as "Hymietown".[30] Hymie is a pejorative term for Jews. Jackson first denied having the conversation and said Jews were conspiring against him.[30] Later, he acknowledged Coleman's account, indicated that he considered the conversation with the reporter private, and said he had been wrong to use the term.[30] Jackson apologized during a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, but continuing suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many in the Jewish community.[30] Among Jackson's other remarks were that Richard Nixon was less attentive to poverty in the U.S. because "four out of five [of Nixon's top advisors] are German Jews and their priorities are on Europe and Asia"; that he was "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust"; and that there are "very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs". In 1979, Jackson said on a trip to the Middle East that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was a "terrorist," and Israel was a "theocracy."[31] Jackson has since apologized for at least some of these remarks, but they badly damaged his campaign, as "Jackson was seen by many conservatives in the United States as hostile to Israel and far too close to Arab governments."

Racism exists.

I find this the worst kind of racism, the racism built into tax codes and government preferential treatment.

“I believe in empowerment zones. Most of the unemployed black Americans in this country are in these mostly economically depressed areas. It could be, and I’m only using this as an example, because we haven’t finished establishing the parameters yet. Instead of in a designated empowerment zone, it being 9-9-9, it could be, as an example only, 3-3-3.

What this does, because you have a lot of African-Americans located in cities like Detroit, disproportionately, it would encourage businesses to stay in business there or to move there. It would encourage people to work there, because if you live in the empowerment zone, you’re going to pay a smaller percentage in taxes.”

It is interesting to note that from the “rags to riches” perspective, Mr Cain And Mr Perry live parallel lives.

You are mistaken if you think I don’t admire both men’s story.

I place them both at the front for that, however, I find Mr Cain to be lacking in tenacity, I find him to be flippant and jocular about serious matters and I question his business prowess.

Forrest for the trees, babe.

BTW, are you saying you make your decisions on which politician to support based on a post made by a Freeper that you dont even know in real life? Thats pretty weak.