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Dr. Boyce: Quick Thoughts on the Dangers of Herman Cain

May 21, 2011 By 30 Comments

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

Herman Cain just announced his candidacy for President of the United States.  I have a few fleeting thoughts about Cain and his chances of becoming the next president.  While Cain’s chances of being president are about as great as mine, we must remember that there was a time when no one believed in a guy named Barack Obama.  My thoughts (which I shared with my Facebook friends) are below:

-Call me crazy, but I think Herman Cain will emerge as a dangerous candidate. He is a Morehouse man, and nearly every black family in America has that conservative uncle/aunt/mama/grandmother/father who thinks that liberal issues are crazy. Ironically, Cain will lead many to reconsider what it means to be a black man/woman in American politics. He can’t simply be written off as an Uncle Tom.

-What’s interesting to me is that I have several middle class, southern baptist members of my family who would respond well to Cain’s message. They don’t want higher taxes, they hate healthcare reform, they want law and order, are against abortion, don’t care much for social programs (especially welfare) and can’t stand gay people…….the black community has a whole gang of closet and confused conservatives.

-We have to remember that Cain’s chances of winning are not much less than Obama’s chances when he first announced he was running.  There was a Saturday Night Live skit shown in 2007, which effectively assumed that the election belonged to Hillary Clinton and that Barack was “cute” for thinking that he had a chance.  As Obama showed us, a lot can change during an election.

- If I were Cain’s campaign manager, I would show him videos of Colin Powell and say, “act like that guy.”  Colin appealed well to everyone.  I won’t be voting for Herman Cain, and neither will much of white America.  But his candidacy for President gives a lot of church-going black folks something serious to think about.

Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of the Your Black World Coalition.  To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.

 

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  • http://www.perspectives-anotherwaytoview.blogspot.com Carolyn Moon

    Why give this man pointers.  We may have some of these people in our families and although they make for a lively discussion during family reunions or holiday dinners–they’ve bought into a system that has oppressed along racial and class lines for centuries.
    “Uncle Tom ” is too simple and limited for these folks–they are far deadlier–believe that!!

    • WizardG

       @aminah62:disqus I agree with you one hundred percent on that. Yet my take on this country is that we were sold-out long ago, and the elite are just playing games with us as they bleed us blind. No person in the white house is working for the common people of the U.S. It should be obvious that no matter who is chosen for the highest positions of the land, we will always be mistreated like pawns.

      Everything is always wrong! The people continue to suffer, and some lose life, and livelihood to fight the constant mountains of wrongdoings we’re all subjected to.

      There seems to be no end to this madness, and for people to be in denial about the truth in the power of a “president” and  government officers as a whole is one of the biggest of our problems. We are up against tyrants who can remove leaders of other nations. Of course they choose the showpiece of this country!

      • R U Serious

        Black peoples largest fault; self haterd of themselves. No race on this planet goes unhated. NOW HOW DO WE SOLVE IT.  Martin tried to lead the way.IDEAS ANYONE? 

        • Yepme2

          Stop listening to the voices you been listening to all these years and think for yourself by challenging everything you’ve read and listen to.  BS is expressed only in the written and spoken word.  

          Like Moses who waundered the desert for (40) years, when all he had to do was walk a straight line, the voices of the community that label themselves as leaders, are on a mission.  They have built their throne on a mountain of misery and do not want that mountain moved. 

          In 1945, Japan was a devastated nation, (2) atomic bombs dropped on them within (3) days, they have risen above those conditions in less than half a century, we are hundreds of years, still scrambling and lost in a world of BS. 

    • Jaycee1583

      Mr Cain needs no pointers, trust me…He has met this country on its own terms and has been very successful.  He is dangerous to Obama supporters because he will tell it like it is-no beating around the bush.  Mr Cain will find every democrat lie, answer it with straight truth, and watch the liberal dance off to S.I.N. (S-hift the subject,  I-gnore the facts, and N-ame call).  I hope he gets to make Pres. Obama do some S.I.Ning.
      Lotta S.I.Ning going on in this forum

    • Yepme2

      Thanks Carolyn for displaying analytical skills, with realistic observations.  Like the Stockholm syndrome, many in our community suffer from the slave syndrome, identifying with the slave master and appreciating the opportunity to show their loyalty.

      Your statement was short and real, not submerged and smothered with BS.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_73CIKYA25XJQN4I3WN5CX6JTCU LEROY A

    It is scary  when we talk bad about a man that built something out of nothing that took the tough road and say good things about a man that has done nothing but be a politician and has no problem lieing to anyone to get his way. Dr. Boyce you are a sorry blackman. 

    • AlexandrosNikos

      Thank you guys for the below – very nice to hear some actual courage and decency vs. the sickness and cowardice.
      For the people sounding something like vile humans to the rational and decent with the name calling and suggestions of worse, Herman Cain’s Very Existence isINCREDIBLY GOOD FOR Black People and their future, and more potentially.
      It proves there is actually something else than the modern American Representation so proudly portrayed..
      I’m not referring to something “media created” unless it’s Black owned Media, but the things and culture those who engage in it seem to relish in so greatly, getting paid, fulfilling the n word more than any white man could haveimagined, (when majority of black folks were not in the past when the term started) 

      These people have created more severe race recognition and internal racist feelings by so many millions of others it’s amazing they do not care what they are doing.. 

      These are people that are not normally, not raised, and not previously considered “racist”. 

      Many many millions more than in the 50′s now, of new people feeling and believing in similar ways due only to the exposure of what “Black America” promotes, indulges in, and apparently portrays what being black is.  I.e. the shadier %85 of BET programming, and you fan’s here now..
      Herman is Proof to people that there are those who are the Definition of Great Americans of any color, like MLK, who are not the horrible, SO Popular, definition of what “black folks” display as Modern Black Americans..

      He’s too old fashioned I guess..  Well, if we think about it old fashioned may not be such a vial thing..
      After all most of your grandparents and their parents were far better humans than most posting here are.  “Being themselves” as current “modern blacks in America” that the world is shown day after day.
      Really very cowardly to attack a Proud American – a Real Black Man – how could he not be? 
      Bucking all of you MILLIONS of stuck, sickly, Drones?

      He would laugh internally and or in your face for implying uncle Tom – it being such a joke to everything he is to the core.
      Very sick attacking someone for being more like George Washington Carver, and or your grandparents than all of you little wayne lovers strive to be.

      I know I know, you’re getting paid though or trying to, so the doing of things related to great works, civil societies and impressive accomplishments are not cool to you.
      At some point however, little wayne and all the rest before and to come will nolonger pass as something anyone should get paid for or place much respect orvalue in.
      I believe for example little wayne has talent internally as a person black or not but it’s primarily moot since his product is shiit, and a manifestation of a sick culture that happens to be “”””“BLACK”””” Culture” to you Cain Bashers..
      By the way I think you do under estimate an actual sure nuff real and Strong Black Man, he may just kick all of your asses with you not being able to do anythingabout it..

      AlexandrosNikos

      inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/GWC.htm

      Thanks!! for these…………

      It is scary  when we talk bad about a man that built something out of nothing that took the tough road and say good things about a man that has done nothing but be a politician and has no problem lieing to anyone to get his way.

      IT’S OFFICIAL: “A REAL BLACK MAN WILL RUN AGAINST BARRACK OBAMA”

      Maybe Cain is a good reason for a mass exodus of black people from the Democrat Party. It would not surprise me to see Cain on the Republican ticket for President or Vice President.  As someone that has always voted for democrats I would vote for Cain.  Who knows Cain maybe the man that can make things “better” for black folks. 

  • Blackgirl

    Maybe Cain is a good reason for a mass exodus of black people from the Democrat Party. It would not surprise me to see Cain on the Republican ticket for President or Vice President.  As someone that has always voted for democrats I would vote for Cain.  Who knows Cain maybe the man that can make things “better” for black folks.

    • mack

      Don’t believe you’re a Blackgirl but LOL anyway

  • WizardG

    My Idea is that Obama was chosen by the elite. He has been complicit in putting forth every negative action the elite could possibly want. He was paid for and basically moved forward by the elite. He psychologically/ emotionally sold himself to the general public while knowing full well what his walking orders were. In his stylish way of lying, he promised us the world but gave us very little if anything. Many can see this but few can accept it. I think we’ve had enough of this, but it appears that whomever is put in front of us server another master, surely not the ‘people’.

    I figured that since he was doing such a great job for the elite (The must’ve purposely chosen him to lead their grand assault on Africa and the middle-east among other things). With all this in mind I figure him a shoe-in to continue the work of the elite, but this new information changes everything. I figured that the Republican party candidates were being misrepresented for the purpose of making Obama look good. They appeared to be misfiring all over the place. I figured it was all a ruse to make the populace think there were no alternatives to choosing Obama. Now this new candidate stepping into the fray makes me think that because Obama is proving to have a very low acceptance rate, the elite had to rethink their strategy. They want to keep a black ‘man’ in that position as a showpiece but since Obama is looking weaker in the polls, and what have you, this may just be their new strategy. They seem to really want a ‘black’ face for their “Wars on the African/middle-eastern front”.

    The bottom line is that no matter who is placed in the presidential palace (which is clearly a token seat). The elite will have their way with this, their populace (of pawns) and the world!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shakka-Zulu/1379420279 Shakka Zulu

    Another black man allowing himself to be the puppet of  white people..They tried with Michael Steel, he was not playing the game according to the RNC riles, so they pulled this sambo from a red state (GA), to be their poster boy..In order for us to overcome this system of white domination, we will suffer massive casualties, because we will have to weed out people like Cain, Steel, and all the clowns who are willing to crawl back onto the slave plantation…  

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Olin-Ross/546574576 Olin Ross

      This is how the devil work his voodoo on some people mind set……Most Americans are weak mindless, stupid, dense, naive  & mentally lazy….and that include all colors……

  • claudia

    This is the first time I heard of this man. Please tell me who the hell he is? 

    • Tulsacrimemonthly

      Cain is a corporate Negro that right wingers like.  He is a candidate for the Republican race to name a candidate that will be stomped by Obama in 2012,
      Like the insane Negro, Alan Keyes, Cain is the choice for White Bigots that want to derail President Obama.  He has simple Republican answers for all of the problems America has.  Cain got all of this vast worldly experience by flipping pizzas.  He’s a disgraceful Negro, similar to Alan Keyes, Armstrong Williams, and Uncle (Clarence) Thom-as.  In the 60′s, Blacks would not have tolerated a Negro like this.  But since Blacks are so busy, nowadays, killing each other, hiding in ignorant Baptist Churches, dancing and popping their fingers, and calling each other “Nigga,” this has permitted the rise of Negroes like Cain.
       

      • R U Serious

        rather harsh words, exellant elements of truth, seems to display a bit of ‘self=hate;the points made with a more respectful tone, could very well not fall on ;deaf’ ears. the goal is solutions to the wasteful activities our people choose, solutions, Its easy to judge / ridicule, advancing pride and mutual respect , ah a  vexing cause

  • Anonymous

     Herman Cain made a huge mistake being shown with FoxNews and TEA Party members. These two institutions are the ones that got us in trouble for their lies. They endorsed GOP governors that are abusing labor union members – taking away their rights. Cain should not be seen with FoxNews and TEA Party if he wants to succeed. While he had biggest impact at the first debate, GOP and TEA Party do not want him anyway. You guess why. Further once people know he is against labor union rights, he is done.

  • Colonel Sixx

    IT’S OFFICIAL: “A REAL BLACK MAN WILL RUN AGAINST BARRACK OBAMA”

     http://colonel6.com/2011/05/21/its-official-a-real-black-man-will-run-against-barrack-obama/

  • BOATLOVER518

    HERMAIN CAIN WILL NOT GET PAST THE PRIMARIES, NO MATTER WHAT YOU OR HE SAYS!!!! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Olin-Ross/546574576 Olin Ross

    But you are leaving one variable out of the equation, God…….God is still the CEO……God is still in the miracle business……..Obama election to President of the USA was a divine intervention…..Because the Laws of Nature can not operational explain Obama election…….

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shakka-Zulu/1379420279 Shakka Zulu

      Still believing in the white man religon and god’s hand being on Obama..Then this same god was also responsible for the tornadoes that killed over 300 people and wrecked several towns, he also caused the current flooding of the mississippi and all those millions of revenues, homes, and lives that will be destroyed..You people need to stop listening to these snake oil salesmen and think logically.. 

  • Mark

    “Call me crazy, but I think Herman Cain will emerge as a dangerous candidate. He is a Morehouse man, and nearly every black family in America has that conservative uncle/aunt/mama/grandmother/father who thinks that liberal issues are crazy.”

    Time to rename your website, “Your Black Liberal Victimized Democrat World”.  A successful Black man who works his butt off to get ahead, and now he threatens folks like Dr. Boyce and Al Sharpton who making ALL of their money by convincing Black people that they are victims and racism is the reason they aren’t successful. He’s Black so the racism card doesn’t, work, let’s get out the Uncle Tom card, and Anti-gay card… An now I see you have a new card. “He goes to church” ..card   Notice “Doctor” Boyce said nothing about Cain’s policies. He just used every “name” every card from the Black Victimization playbook.  Are you really a PHD?  Every Black person should ask himself how those liberal policies working in my neighborhood the last forty years?  How about those gas prices? Obama told you he was going to raise energy prices, so that his green energy isn’t so overpriced.  How is my city been doing since we stated electing Democrat mayors?   

    • Hattieredd

      I agree with you Mark. Boyce and Sharpton are out for themselves as well. I heard what Al Sharpton said about GAY rights and it really makes me sick. Obama do not care about Boyce nor Sharpton, it’s all about 2012 votes.They won’t talk about the Dream Act or how they have to sign this bill for Blacks to vote every 25 years. They won’t tell us why 17% black men are unemployed or 13% black females. But he have the nerve to talk about being a Demorat. They are the ones we need to watch out for.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jerry-Taylor/100000984035020 Jerry Taylor

    Cain is being allowed to become a candidate by
    Ailes/Murdoch (all republican candidates must be ok’ed by News Corp) as another
    angled attack on Obama. He will be praised and promoted by the Ailes/Murdoch
    (fox, ny post wsj, etc) apparatus only to criticize and counter Obama. But once
    the nomination process gets serious, he’ll be cast aside. Who in their right
    mind think the gop would seriously consider a non-white as potus.  

  • TSUJones-Houston

     Here I would like to think the great Clarence Thomas for teaching Black Americans that we really do live in a free country and are well within our rights to offer support to a visible Klan Dragon verses a closet Oreo. More importantly, we need to be reminding our delusionally enlightened family members that politicians communicate with code words that sound one way and mean something entirely different. Any Black American who is against Health Care Reform is clueless. Black folk should never, ever, speak the term OBAMACARE. That term was not choose by President Obama for Healthcare reform. It was created by people who hate him. Every time you say obamacare you are enforcing a negative stereotype, based on lies.  I can remember when I thought nigga was cool, unless a white man was saying it.  The fact is that 30 million Americans are receiving tax payer funded healthcare. There is no such thing as free health care.  This is the result of Big finance exporting 25 American million middle class jobs to $1. a week 3rd world countries while keeping the retail prices up.  That’s how the rich are still getting richer.  If Republicans cared about those 30 million Americans without insurance, they would have addressed this issue when they ruled the world, I mean controlled capitol hill.

  • Anonymous

     Cosby Negroes like this fought on the side of the confederacy.

  • Tulsacrimemonthly

    Herman Cain is the Great White Hope with a tan.  This ignorant man made a little money when White Republicans gave him a job with Godfather Pizza.  He was so devoid of a personal political point of view, that of course, an opportunistic Black like this would adopt the views of his White bosses. 
       There is nothing wrong with being conservative, and Black.  But whites are no longer conservative, they are right wing.  The right wing is full of white supremacist ideology.  Any Black that affiliates with the Right Wing Republican nowadays, must have taken a lot of abuse at school when they were young.
       A great Black Republican politician would be a man like Edward Brooks.  He never allowed himself to dip to such a depth as to aligned himself with white supremacist Republicans.  These contemporary Black Republicans would sell out their mother to be a reverse version of Al Jolson.  

  • Yepme2

    What have we here, a vaudeville team of Sham and double Sham?  Take your act to your own community, you have enough flim flam goiing on there to fill your cup of tea.  So Cain is the answer to our community, in your eyes, is it because he serves your agenda of divide and conquer?  There is a story in the bible for believers, relating to Cain slew his brother Abel, ironicly, another Cain has arrived on the scene to slay his brothers and sisters.

    You and Leroy, like the Blues brothers, tops the show as the BS bothers.

  • Paul Z

    Herman Cain is a breath of fresh air, while all the GOP candidates throw mud at each other, Mr. Cain takes the high road. Every time they asked Mr Cain a question he answered with a solution or an idea not rhetoric

  • http://twitter.com/ZeroZero_01 Pedro Vaz

    The most likely scenario is that he will be the next president of the United States. This article is just another attack using the same old clichés. And what’s with the “gay” stuff? Are the “gays” the Master Race or something? The World should orbit around them or something? Ohhh wait, i’m a “closet” case…

    White liberals are the most racist/racial people on the planet, to them a black man is nothing more than a pity case and a tool and black liberals are their “house negros”.