Lawrence O'Donnell's Hostile Interview With Herman Cain

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: He graduated from Moorehouse in 1967. He even admitted that in the interview.

So? Your point about 1967? Or do you have any idea of the civil rights movement in relation to the pertinent years?

It's pretty obvious what her point is. Herman Cain was in college from the fall of 63 to the spring of 67. To say he was in high school when the civil rights battle is going on (as he said in the interview) is intellectually dishonest. While he was in high school to the spring of 63, he was in college after that.

And your point? You sound like a racist yelling "Uncle Tom".

Arlen wrote:

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: He graduated from Moorehouse in 1967. He even admitted that in the interview.

So? Your point about 1967? Or do you have any idea of the civil rights movement in relation to the pertinent years?

The Civil Rights movement went from 1954-1971, one of the biggest marches, and strongest student involvement was the voter registration drive in Mississippi....my freshman year in college and Herman Cains also.....That voter registration drive went on for several years, and both black and white students were VERY involved. 1965 was Martin Luther King's protest march from Selma to Montgomery. How any African American could sit on the sidelines during those years boggles my mind, not if they cared about the future of equality for their race, not if they wanted to further the cause of freedom in this nation.

Thurgood Marshall didn't participate either. I guess that he was an uncle tom?
Whenever you start painting with a broad brush, it will paint quite a few blacks.

Get real! You are setting up quite an unfair litmus test that is biased with your own outlook.

How about James Brown? The Supremes? All of the blues artists? they were not in the marches and head bashings.
Are they all "oreos"?

Cain overcame discrimination by succeeding in business with the deck stacked against him.
None of you liberals would make a pimple on his ass.

Arlen wrote: Thurgood Marshall didn't participate either. I guess that he was an uncle tom?
Whenever you start pointing with a broad brush, it will paint quite a few blacks.

So far, the only one using the term "Uncle Tom" brush is you -- twice. And now you use the term "Oreos." Yeah, there's a racist here, but it's not us.

Thurgood Marshall didn't participate in the Civil Rights Movement? Don't tell Time Magazine...

Thurgood Marshall: The Brain Of The Civil Rights Movement


Marshall went on to become one of the most important lawyers of the 20th century. He was the architect of one of America's most radical transformations: the removal of legal racism, root and branch, from the nation's leading institutions. Just as important, Marshall's personal journey--the grandson of a slave, he became the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court--was a shining example of the more open society he dedicated his life to achieving.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... z1aLNpzF7r

Arlen wrote: Cain overcame discrimination by succeeding in business with the deck stacked against him.
None of you liberals would make a pimple on his ass.

Or did he benefit from affirmative action, as a result of the blood, sweat and tears of people who chose to risk their lives in the civil rights movement while he watched from the back of the bus?

Arlen wrote: Thurgood Marshall didn't participate either. I guess that he was an uncle tom?
Whenever you start pointing with a broad brush, it will paint quite a few blacks.

Get real! You are setting up quite an unfair litmus test that is biased with your own outlook.

From Cain's interview with O'Donnell:

Cain says that he was too young to participate in the Civil Rights movement, and that his father told him to “stay out of trouble” by moving to the back of the bus.

Cain said. “…If I had been a college student I probably would have been participating.” He said that, as a high school student, “it was not prudent” for him to be involved.

Cain said. “…You didn’t know, Lawrence, what I was doing…maybe, just maybe, I had a sick relative!”

http://lezgetreal.com/2011/10/herman-ca ... -movement/

Sounds like a lot of excuses, and lies, about that time to me. He was in college during the height of the civil rights movement, and the sick relative? what's up with that, sick for years? Just another conservative trying to weasel out of answering a direct question. If he had said he didn't believe in the movement, or was scared, or thought he had more important things to do, well OK.....but making excuses and lying just doesn't cut it.