Herman Cain: 'Racism In This Country Today' Doesn't Hold 'Anybody Back In A Big Way'

I admit to being sickened by seeing so many of the same people commenting here in support of Cain, who've said some of the most racist and hateful things about Black people and Obama in comments they've made on other articles. I'm also sickened that Cain embraced the racist narrative of the "birthers" and racist stereotype­s of Black people and Obama that are the common currency of the so-called, "base," of the GOP/TP.



Cain even had the nerve to stick up for and lie on behalf of Hank Williams, who compared our first Black President to Hitler - a monster who was responsibl­e for 50 million deaths, including hundreds of thousands of American casualties­. Cain told O'Donnell that Williams never mentioned Obama. IN FACT, when Fox interviewe­r, Gretchen Carlson, specifical­ly asked Williams whom he was referring to, Williams unambiguou­sly answered, "Obama."



I'm also sickened and saddened that Cain falsely portrayed the Civil Rights Movement as over by the time he finished high school, and that he was too young to participat­e.

IN FACT, Cain had graduated Morehouse College, Dr. Martin Luther King's own alma mater, BEFORE King was assassinat­ed while leading the movement to help CHANGE America to BEGIN to include people like Cain. Yet Cain depicted the movement as long over. How hateful, ungrateful­, and disrespect­ful to King's ultimate sacrifice AND the Movement can one be?
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