Not An Illogic Loop. More Like a Series of Tubes. Racism Charges in the Age of Minstrel Man Cain.

Ya. If any wing nut ever sees this they might call me a racist for that. And for calling Cain a Lawn Jockey. Am I using racially tinged language? Yew betcha! And I delivering a specific IDEA there? Yew betcha twice. I am using different, alternative words/phrases to communicate the idea that I believe Cain is perpetuating some rather vulgar, if not damaging African American stereotypes. And I am not so much personally offended, but I find "his act" generally offensive, as being an African American myself, dontcha know.

Plus. YO! RACIST WING NUT TEA BAGGER IDIOTS!

The real hinge, the real pivot point where racism (and we define that to include all ethnic bigotry) is concerned is with how an individual (or group) thinks about the group at issue. If you believe most people from planet Fishwalla smell like fish and swim in their own shit generally, and you encounter or merely mention someone from there? And then you focus your group bias, prejudiced insult on him, that's a function of the racial prejudice you have for inhabitants of Fishwalla. But if you catch someone like Herb Cain doing some jive-assed performance and call his ass out on that shit, you are judging him as an individual.

Anyway, now that the baseline has been set, let's look at the tubes. Cain loves talking about his blackness. Cain claims to be blacker than Obama. But Cain backed down over Niggerhead rock. Basically apologized for taking offense to the racially offensive aspect of that whole story. And Cain, even if coming at it from as much the political side as the racist side, insulted the vast majority of blacks with that horrid plantation meme. My take on that, is that is the prettied up way of calling the vast majority of blacks in America a bunch of stupid niggers.

And then, in the next breath (metaphorically speaking) he says racism doesn't hold folk back anymore (cause his math skills got him to a good career?) And now the fun part is happening more and more. I must imagine that some of these fools have thought if not expressed the idea that Ohhh . . . the Dems are constantly playing the race card! Ya can't "criticize" Obama with out being accused of being a racist!

Beyond the fact that is false. Anyone in public above the public relevance/pundit line can make any number of policy based criticisms against P. Obama with out fear of being called a racist for it. Emailing pix of a watermelon crop on the WH Lawn, however, will get you called a racist. Doing what Limbaugh did, and saying the shit he has said (like that Halfrican crack, or the way he offensively goes after Michelle Obama?) That will get you branded as a racist. Pix of P. Obama as a witch doctor will get you branded a racist. Merely saying you don't agree with him about raising taxes on the richest Americans, however, will not get you branded a racist. I went long there but I am just actually amused, however, at how some of these wing nut pundits have rediscovered "on black" racism, after pathologically denying it's continuing existence, because people are insulting Herb Cain.

Consistency people. Try for it some time. Lean the meaning first, then try for it. Oh and while I am giving out pointers, learn not only the meaning of the words racism and racist. But learn that every time someone mentions race, or merely infers about, it does not equal racism. That's a big part of the problem with wing nuts and race. Near Total Ignorance of the subject matter. Not that ignorance of a subject will keep a wing nut from talking about shit.