re: #90 Dark_Falcon

Hard to say. Most of those who voted for Cain were white, so at least 35% of those voting in the straw poll weren’t racist (I rate the actual number who aren’t racist a good deal higher).

That’s because, to them, Cain is the “good kind” of black guy. Cain’s father is not a Muslim from Kenya, he doesn’t have a scary middle name, he didn’t spend any of his childhood in Indonesia, and he never community organized.

This may sound harsh, but how many conservatives in the media celebrated the fact that America broke down another cultural barrier by electing a black man? I still remember Juan Williams on Fox that night weeping while the guys around him acted like he was a pussy for thinking this was anything historically important.

Obama has done everything that the dominant white culture bemoans as lacking among blacks: he got educated, married, had kids, raised them responsibly, worked very hard…and for this he’s demonized as some sort of traitor. Disgusting, and a generation from now Americans will look back with the same kind of shame we now have over McCarthyism.