Black Republican and the GOP

I have been trying to figure out the angle of Herman Cain for some time now. I first wrote him off as the lone hopeless black guy in the GOP race for president. I figure someone put the idea in his head that the GOP would actually give the nod to a Negro after having endured a mixed race Obama. The thought also went through my mind that maybe in fact Cain being in the race was a GOP reaction to Obama, kinda like the Michael Steele republican chairmen election. (I wonder why no one has pointed that out before) We all remember how that ended for him.

However at the rate that Cain is going he seems like a viable candidate. I personally cannot wait for him to go the way of Bachmann and Perry. I say this not because I feel he would be a threat to Obama, I could care less about him as a candidate and I have not resolved myself to voting for Obama a second time. I am still of the mind that not voting would be better than voting for Obama, something I have never done since turning of legal age.

Cain represents a flippant disregard to Negroes. Which is interesting seeing as how the man by his own words "grew up po before I was poor" (Something that got a boisterous laugh from the GOP audience) By that admission one would expect a man like that to understand the keen role that racism and prejudice plays in the Negro American life. However Cain feels that racism does not really hold anybody back in this nation. 

I can't call this man, what I mean to say is that the same man that advocates neighborhoods being able to vote and decided if to allow mosques in the area claims that racism does not hold people back in this nation. This is the man that says he would not appoint muslims to his cabinet, but in his mind racism does not hold people back. 

Negro, do you not know that 30 years ago you were the muslim? What would you have said then? That you are not sure Negroes are loyal to the same nation that oppress them daily. Would you have been the only black surrounded by Americans claiming that Negroes are brainwashed not to love the brutality of the Americans during the civil rights movement? Why is Cain such a dog whistle for a group that would be raging against him had it not a "new nigger" in the muslim community to lynch. One would think Cain would try and lull Negroes away from the democratic vote but instead he is making them cling even more hopelessly to Obama. He has no empathy, sympathy or words for his brothers other than to say they are brainwashed for not sharing his political mindset. Yes, we Negroes should turn around follow the lead of our once oppressors and join them in the oppression of a new peoples that is how we become fully American. 

I suspect that Cain is no different from the Dean of the southern college portrayed in the Novel 'Invisible man' A Negro with a little bit of power, and a little bit of money, along with the good graces of the Americans will have every Negro hanging from a tree if it meant keeping his position. I suspect that Cain will say and worse of all do, all the things that make his American supporters feel they can trust him despite his black skin, anything that makes him seem like 'one of them' and once he reaches that honorary American status I imagine the plight of the Negro will be a running joke between he and his GOP supporters.