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Cain Was Not Playing A 'Race Card'

There is a difference between being post-racial and racially blind. Herman Cain’s resume is as long as my driveway. He is highly intelligent and energetic, a mathematician and Navy man who exudes positivism and confidence and has accomplished much. He will tell anyone who listens that he owes …

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Written by Brad Schaeffer on Tuesday October 4, 2011

Limbaugh: How Dare Cain Find "Niggerhead" Offensive

After a story this weekend unturned the most famous rock in the recent history of presidential politics, some made a prediction which I hoped would prove incorrect: The person most at risk of harm from a racial controversy in the GOP race would prove to be Herman Cain. Cain has thrived in part by …

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Written by Jay Gatsby on Tuesday October 4, 2011

Race-Baiting, Atlanta Style

City politics in Atlanta has sunk to a new low. An incendiary email is circulating among blacks in the city urging the "critical importance of electing a black mayor at all costs" over a white one in November's municipal election. Vote for me because I'm Black! City politics in Atlanta has sunk to …

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Written by Crystal Wright on Wednesday September 2, 2009