In an ongoing series of attempts to discredit conservatives who happen to be black, the Left has stooped to a new low with their attack on CPAC speaker and successful business man Herman Cain. As Ed Morrissey of HotAir pointed out, this comes from AlterNet, a news website priding themselves on “strong content” and “huge readership and reach.”
As you know, I find black garbage pail kids black conservatives fascinating not because of what they believe, but rather because of how they entertain and perform for their White Conservative masters.When race minstrelsy was America’s most popular form of mass entertainment, black actors would often have to pretend to be white men, who then in turn would put on the cork to play the role of the “black” coon, Sambo, or Jumping Jim Crow. Adding insult to injury, in a truly perverse and twisted example of the power of American white supremacy black vaudevillians would often pretend to be white in order to denigrate black people for the pleasures of the white gaze.
Herman Cain–an ironic name if ever, and one more suited to a tragic figure in a Harlem Renaissance era novella–is not “blackening twice” as some race minstrels chose to do.
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Instead, Herman Cain’s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs “authentic negritude” as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. Like the fountain at Lourdes, Cain in his designated role as black Conservative mascot, absolves the White racial reactionaries at CPAC of their sins. This is a refined performance that Black Conservatives have perfected over many decades and centuries of practice.
The author “Chauncey DeVega” (who also writes for Salon.com and has apparently been featured in the New York Times goes on further to call Cain a “monkey in the window” and make several other despicable accusations centering around the man’s race. DeVega is a prime example of how the left gifts an exemption to people of color to want to be racist. If a White person made the accusations that DeVega has against Cain, they would instantly be outcasted as a racist — and rightfully so. Given his “official” blackness that qualifies him to determine solely who is worthy of their race of not, he attempts to remove Herman Cain’s right to decide for himself what political ideology makes the most sense.
Unlike alleged Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, conservatives such as Herman Cain, Ward Connerly, Lt. Col. Allen West — and the list goes on — don’t need their race as a crutch for success. Rather, they let the Martin Luther King, Jr. philosophy shine through and rely on the content of their character. Of course, the attacks from the left because of this are endless. Only recently, Justice Clarence Thomas had to deal with threats of lynching from those who didn’t agree with his chosen ideology. Black nationalists on the Left think that any black person who refuses to become a victim to the state and to history is an “Uncle Tom,” or a turncoat of sorts, when they’re the ones turning their backs on reality.
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