As you all know by now we have another African American candidate running for Presidency in 2012. However, this time around he is not a Democrat yet he is running under the republican Party. This may come to a surprise for some as traditionally the representation of African Americans is that they tend to vote more liberal, therefore when Herman Cain announced that he would be running for President many scholars in the black community were outraged. In class we have been dealing with the issue of race in politics as we compared topics such as hockey v. basketball with President Obama and Sarah Palin. We also, discussed President Obama’s everlasting need to prove his “blackness” to not only the black community but also to whites. This issue of race is also surfacing with Cain and prominant figures in the black community such as Cornel West, Harry Belafonte, and many others. While they all have their reasons behind not supporting him, many believe that he is feeding into white supremacy or in other words being the white man’s slave. Stating that hes a false bad apple in the black community and other very negative comments towards him. In my opinion comments such as these are extremely problematic, it is already clear that black are underrepresented in politics so instead of beating him down for his beliefs why not support him and be happy for his bravery. This is not only a significant step towards changing the face of Presidency and government, but it too goes to show that we do not have to be afraid to believe something because the majority of our race is against it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDKSnZnkrP8
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I think that it is good that another black man is running for president. Although he isnt the first black republican to run I think that it is good that he is running for president. Yet both he and cornell west share the ignorance of relaying reality and education in their views. I know this was taken out of context but the idea that racism has ended is a negative statement as in its not true. Also to say that its all about working hard is false because people have been working hard all these years and have still been turned down from jobs they deserved and worked hard for. However, it is not bad to think that racism is going away. It think Cain was saying that we cant rely on racism excuse to hold us, black people, back. We have to fight racism and look past it.
Black republican parties dont exist much but they have the right to be republican, but dont say that a party is a plantation, slavery was too much. We dont need to revisit the plantation is any way.
It think Cain was saying that we cant rely on racism excuse to hold us, black people, back. We have to fight against racism and leave it in the past .