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"Mommy, I Want to be a House Negro"
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Supposed and sudden front-runner for the Republican nomination, Cain has found himself in the limelight as the mainstream media's flavor-of-the-minute and with each passing second of his cocoa skin absorbing the attention, the distaste rises for any discerning observer. I saw on a friend's facebook a brief clip of our house-bound friend on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, wherein he claimed that black people have been brainwashed from the cradle to not even consider voting for a conservative, and that an entire third of American blacks would vote for him over Obama should he secure the Republican nomination.
To any reader who knows the basics of 20th century American history, this necessarily asks the question: what the hell United States of America did Herman Cain grow up in?
President Lyndon Johnson shoved through Congress the Civil and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, respectively. Johnson, a Democrat, led (intimidated) his fellow liberals in Congress into quickly passing the pieces of legislation. Southern Democrats, obviously in no rush to give niggers recognition as human beings, jumped ship en masse to the Republican Party in protest. This is not speculation by a brainwashed black youth, this is historical fact. The reason black people don't vote Republican is because it is a party whose core strategies, ideas, and beliefs have changed little since they were formulated by former Dixiecrats and of course Richard Nixon (no friend of any minority, let alone black people) in the late 1960s. This is not to say the Democratic party is a friend of the black community, they're simply less of an enemy than the GOP.
So for Herman Cain to say that black people have been brainwashed by liberals into voting Democratic is ludicrous and moderately offensive. Can you blame entire generations of black people for not voting for a party whose constituents and leaders have helmed squads of German Shepherds, penned anti-drug legislation disproportionately jailing poor minorities for ridiculously long sentences, slashed urban school budgets time after time after time, reduced or eliminated social welfare programs...do I really need to continue? This is not to say every Republican is a racist, a statement needing no defense. This is to say, however, that the modern Republican party was constructed by and for white, Anglo-saxon, protestant men.
How, then, does a black man get roped into a party that has been an enemy of their people for the last fifty years? Especially having grown up during the Civil Rights Movement? Maybe Herman Cain's conservative principles override his allegiance to his race (a notion I have a problem with too, to an extent). Maybe Herman Cain doesn't care about black people. Or maybe he's just fucking stupid. The world may never know. What is known though, is this black man--and probably many more than the 66 "brainwashed" percent--will never cast a Herman Cain vote for anything other than House Negro of the Year.
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The 999 plan is the most fucked up tax proposal I have ever heard publicly uttered... and he won't shut up about it.
9-9-9 is better than the current system. think of the current system as a computer that has been collecting redundant software, spyware and viruses for decades that kills performance and will eventually shut the system down.
talking tax is more constructive than all the other douchebags trying to assert themselves as the most intolerant christian in all the land.
Gotta agree with BP on the tax issue.
9-9-9 is not going to fly, Cain is already modifying it to some extent, but at least he is thinking about a new approach, not the same old crap with a new coat of paint.
And give him a break, he may not be exactly right, in fact he may be exactly wrong, but he is not in lockstep with anybody, and that, in my mind, is to his credit.
The system that was put in place following the legislation you cited and that which followed was well intentioned, but as t put in a much needed floor for many, it also put in a ceiling for most of that subset of society. The frustration that grew from dealing with that was not limited to one segment of the population or another, nor its numerous justifications.
HC probably won't make it to the White House, but don't discount him, and don't call him a house negro. We have John Boehner for that kinda myopia.
Getdafuckoutaheah, BP!
He wants to do away with capital gains and inheritance taxes, and replace them with that regressive piece of crap, and you think it is better than the stink we've got?
If the idea is to propose something even more skewed towards the rich and invasive towards business and personal dealings, then 9-9-9 is bloody brilliant, ya daft cunt!
That was for BBC.
Lookie, BBC got himself a press agent.
The significance here is not that the idea is so great, (it is already being modified, and the national sales tax won't get anywhere), it is that it does away with everything embedded and starts more or less anew.
The final product won't look anything like 9-9-9 does today, but it does give us the chance to improve on what we have.
That is the significant factor.
exactly - the point is he's not droning on about being a fucking christian. he's a bit of a flake but compared to the other assholes he's a prince. or maybe not.
you know BP, I always thought that you were smarter than you average Puritan....
Myopia? I fail to see how labeling Herman Cain a house negro is myopic, in any sense of the word. Ask just about any black person about Herman and, albeit with softer words, they'll tell you everything I told you. The verdict is unanimous from everybody I've talked to about this, even regardless of race. If you take some sort of moral or philosophical issue with me calling the man a house negro then there are far more important things to be concerned with, even within this post.
As far as his 999 plan goes, if this is anything more than coincidence then I'm not sure I can even give him credit for being marginally more constructive than the rest of them.
I give cain credit for doing something different than the rest in terms of the tune that lowers taxes for the "job creators" (the ones that own Wal-Mart or a factory in Bombay or Beijing), and maintaining the status quo. i do not think his idea is a good one, nor do I think it will pan out if he were elected and were to attempt to implement it. I see him as a right-wing Robespierre, a leader of a revolution who will tear down the (first) old order, then have a date with the guillotine himself.
He is not presidential material, but he is something besides the usual republican shit, (or Democratic shit), and he does change the terms of the debate. That is my point.
What Herman Cain & Angela Merkel share: the 9-9-9 plan & the nein-nein-nein plan.
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