Monday, November 07, 2011

Herman Cain, the First Black President

Whatever you may want to say about Herman Cain, one "argument" he has going for him is that if he wins the presidency, he'll be America's first black president. The "argument" from "making history" was a powerful emotional tactic used by those on the left to bring many black and young people to the polls, groups that traditionally don't show up in very large numbers. White and black celebliberals alike would attend rallies and entreat the crowd to "make history" by voting in Obama. If the argument was a good one, then it should work for Cain. Why? Obama may be our first mulatto (mixed, bi-racial, whatever) president, but he's not the first black president (it seems totally arbitrary, if not racist or sexist, to make the race of one of his parents the determiner of Obama's race). At the very least, a Herman Cain presidency will make history for America. He will be the first black president our country has ever had. Just sayin'.

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