Assuming he's right on
the facts, there's no way you can argue with what Herman Cain
said about Rick Perry's offensively-named hunting grounds:
A Perry rival, Herman Cain, said on “Fox News Sunday” that it was “insulting” that Mr. Perry and his family had used a camp with such a racially charged name.
There “isn’t a more vile, negative word than the N-word, and for him to leave it there as long as he did, until before, I hear, they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country,” said Mr. Cain, an African-American who is the former chief executive of the Godfather’s Pizza chain.
But keep in mind that this is the same Herman Cain who accused African-Americans of being "brainwashed" drones who have trouble "thinking for themselves." And just yesterday, he defended his accusation:
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain stood by his contention that black voters shy away from the GOP because they have been "brainwashed" into voting for Democrats.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Cain, the lone African-American among the GOP presidential hopefuls, said that it was "too bad" if black voters were offended by his suggestion they were not thinking for themselves.
"If the word is inflammatory, that's too bad, it's true," he said. "And here's why: because some black people won't even listen to someone who appears to be a conservative or a Republican. I call that brainwashing."
I'll at least give Herman Cain credit for this: He knows what his audience wants to hear.