Herman Cain Rips Belafonte And Cornel West: ‘They Don’t Want Black People To Think For Themselves’

Herman Cain has taken with relish to the position of top tier candidate, launching a thousand rhetorical spears in his direction and answering them in record time. Today, it took only a few hours for him to respond to Cornel West and Harry Belafonte who, respectively, called for him to get off the “symbolic crack pipe” and stop being a “bad apple.” On Hannity tonight, Cain accused West of being “out of touch with the real world” and told Belafonte, “I left the Democratic plantation a long time ago.”

Cain began addressing his harsh comments against the Occupy Wall Street protesters, telling Sean Hannity that “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who believe this country owes them something.” As for the race discussions surrounding his rise in the Republican Party, he found it hard to understand people who call “racism on the fact that some people don’t make it in America… if you put your mind to it and you don’t play the victim card, you can do whatever you want. I am walking proof of that.”

As for Belafonte and West’s comments, he admitted he found the comments “offensive,” but took them one by one, as they came from difference sources. To West, Cain responded that “this is the difference between someone who has spent their life in academia and someone who has spent their lives in the real world… he is out of touch with the real world.” To Belafonte, he assured him that he was no longer on the “Democratic plantation” and that his only tactic “to intimidate me and shut me up is to call me names and that sort of thing,” and that it wouldn’t work. Ultimately, he argued that both of them– as well as many Democrats– “don’t want a lot of people to wake up, especially black people… they don’t want black people to think for themselves.”

Cain also returned to the Wall Street protests, decrying them for trying to compare themselves to the Tea Party movement. “They’re just trying to legitimize themselves by trying to compare themselves to the Tea Party,” he noted, where in reality “they don’t have real clear objectives like that. Do they want the people in Wall Street to come out of their offices and write them a check?”

The segment via Fox News below:

As an outsider, I am european, what are the chances of Herman cain to be the next president ?
It would be so fantastic to have a black conservative at the White House. The lefties would find themselves in a bit of a quandry,how could you call people on the right racist ?

amazing how little support he has amongst his peers.

I love the quote...”I Have left the democratic plantation..”
Should be his slogan for his election campaign.

>Kind regards to all at Free Republic.
It gives me hope that you will get obama out in 2012.

The lefties would find themselves in a bit of a quandry,how could you call people on the right racist ?

The left would say that he is “not really black” (excuse me?). The left will call him an Uncle Tom, Oreo Cookie, race traitor, in denial, and what ever personal attack that they can crap out. Look up the left’s attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas - going back to his confirmation hearings (the “high tech lynching”). Look up Ted Rall’s cartoons of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The hard left (I will not call them liberals) are vile, evil racists.
If the plantation masters and their overseers go sufficiently barking mad in their ravings, maybe black people will see through it and leave the plantation.
The Leftist establishment hates black people who can think for themselves. They view them as runaway slaves. And they encourage what is called the crab bucket mentality. If you have a bucket of crabs, one will try to crawl out, and the rest will try to pull that crab back down (somehow called “keepin it real”).

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