Posted on 11/03/2011 8:29:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
As we find ourselves gliding through another week of political headlines, I continue to be amazed by the ream of personal attacks mounted against Herman Cain by black liberals. You wouldn’t think America elected its first black president by the way black Democrats, those so called progressives, who the media paint as the compassionate party, are behaving. From calling Cain a “sell out” to “Uncle Tom” because he chooses to be a Republican doesn’t sound like progressive talk to me but rather backwards racist talk.
The latest black Democrat to mouth off with racist comments about Cain is Karen Finney.
Former Democratic National Committee spokesperson, now political strategist (whose resume reads as long as a roll of toilet paper) appeared on MSNBC and said:
“I think Herman Cain might be coming out with a new show because he’s become the new Donald Trump in the race and it’s hard to take him seriously,” Finney said.
I guess Finney missed the recent poll showing Cain leading GOP field by 24% and Romney trailing at 17%. Apparently, Finney doesn’t bother to read or worry about the facts. Trump’s failed flirt with running for president lasted maybe a month while Cain is still in the game. Looks like Cain is auditioning for POTUS. It’s hard to take anything Finney says seriously. Ah, but there’s more from this pontificating, elitist Democrat.
She continued: “I think he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel that they’re not racist because they can like this guy, I think they like him because he’s a black man who knows his place.” The comment conjures up the ugly side of slavery and Civil Rights when racist whites used to call blacks ‘boy,’ ‘son,’ ‘girl’ and remind them to know their place in the lower rung of society or suffer the consequences of lynchings, beatings and death. Why would a black woman like Finney, who purports to be such righteous liberal, say this to a black man in the 21st century?
Imagine if a Republican said this about black Karen Finney? Calls of outrage and condemnation would never cease from Democrats. I think Cain knows his place as a black man in the GOP very well, it’s called the top of the polls. I wonder if Finney knows her place. The book Game Change recounts Ted Kennedy being deeply offended (see page 218) during the 2008 presidential campaign, when former President Bill Clinton asked Kennedy to endorse Hillary Clinton. “Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been getting us coffee.”
Finney shouldn’t kid herself that the Democrat political establishment is all about helping blacks advance to the highest ranks of the party. Democrats, particularly black Democrats are angry Herman Cain rising in the polls among GOP contenders because he erases Obama as a political novelty. Moreover, Cain’s ascent and message of blacks being brainwashed by the Democrat Party, threatens to destroy Democrats grand illusion that their policies of government welfare help black Americans excel economically.
It’s driving black Democrats crazy a black man actually has the nerve to run for president as a Republican. Cain actually refers to himself as a black man, unlike Obama. When was the last time you heard Obama call himself a black man.
Democrats like to go around pretending to be shocked and amazed at the sheer notion black Republicans exist. But the reality is from Sojourner Truth, to Blanche Bruce, and Frederick Douglass to name a few, black Republicans have been around a long time and continue to thrive today with the likes of Oklahoma’s new Speaker of the House Rep. T.W. Shannon, Utah Mayor Mia Love and Florida Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll. To perhaps the dismay of liberals, black Republicans aren’t going anywhere but rather growing in numbers and voices everyday and we will NOT be put in “our place” by Democrats or anyone.
He knows his place. It’s not on the Demoncratic Plantation.
He's the friggin' BOSS.
That's his place.
Cain’s place is in the top leadership of the Republican Party.
Democrat/progressive hypocrisy is getting really hard to stomach.
Why is not the reference to “Uncle Tom” treated with the same regard as the “n-word” by the African American so-called “leaders”? It’s hard to imagine a term that would be more offensive...
Of course we know the answer. And they are always the ones to use it, quickly and often, when a black person fails to support the Democrat/Liberal party line.
His rebuttal is incredibly easy. How many black liberal “leaders” have *ever* worked for a living, and not just sucked on the teat of the Democrat party, government giveaways, or some race-baiting NGO?
Black liberals are so used to the chains they no longer even see them.
Slavery was an institution of the Democrat party. So was segregation and Jim Crow laws. And so is the race-baiting they do today, while keeping the black people down in poverty with welfare, and trying to kill as many black babies as they can.
Karen Finney is a she-male
Yeah his “place” is where ever he wants. These people, what rocks do they crawl out from under?
If anyone “knows her place” it’s Karen Finney
Never an original thought, always mouthpiecing what some far leftist tells them to
Ponder, for a moment, the complete idiocy of this statement.
The "place" Cain supporters seek for him is leader of the free world and commander of the most powerful military in the known history of the universe.
And she thinks we condescend with our efforts.
If he was to say right now (or any time soon) that he would only take one term, that would seal the deal for me. I already support him but that would make it concrete.
I thought the headline said she was black.
If Cain really wanted to lay it on, he should offer liberal blacks small, ceremonial, cast iron chains they can wear as decoration to show their loyalty to their Democrat “owners”.
Black liberals are terrified of the truth!!
Yes it's AMAZING how often the left uses projection on their "enemies" as the president calls us.
I think the plantation analogy is actually quite valid, just not in the direction they say.
Plantation = Democratic Party
House Negroes - Black democratic "leaders" who never seem to do anything but run civil rights organizations or hold civil rights positions in government. Black democrats have never given any REAL leadership in that party - they are there to serve the white liberal massas and tell the Field Negroes how good they have it on the Plantation.
Field Negroes - the vast hordes of black Americans who routinely vote democrat regardless of the damage that party has done to the black family, black businesses, black churches, black institutions (the good kind, not the Nation of Islam e.g.) in society.
Runaway Slave - Blacks who dare to live their lives on their own merits and reject the democratic party dogma. Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain are the most prominent examples. There used to be vitriol directed against Colin Powell but he has come back to the Plantation in recent years.
I don’t know about that, but she is a mullato (black father/white mother) like Obama, and race seems to be a big deal with her. She also worked for Clinton.
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