(Community Matters) Leonard Pitts: This would be the same right wing that is conspicuous by its silence, its hostility or its complicity when the injustice system imposes mass incarceration on young black men, when the number of hate groups in this country spikes to over a thousand, when the black unemployment rate stands at twice the national average, when the president is called “uppity” and “boy.”
The candidate has spoken of how he left the Democratic “plantation,” the implication being that more blacks should vote Republican. It would seem on the surface to make sense. . . . This would be the same Cain who not so long ago said racism was no longer a significant obstacle for African Americans . . . . [but now] “I believe the answer is yes,” said Cain himself when asked on Fox if race was the cause of his woes, adding honestly, if hilariously, that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that up [as he tries to avoid accountability for, at best, boorish behavior – at worst, illegal]
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