GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain talks to The Root about racism:
Racism in America will never be totally gone. There's always going to be one group that will look down on another group, but we have come a long way from where we were in the '50s and '60s. I'm a product of the '50s and '60s, and one of the reasons that I succeeded in corporate America is that I did not try to climb the corporate ladder with a victim attitude.
I think that one of the things that holds a lot of black Americans back in terms of succeeding in business and corporate America is that they have a victim's attitude. Whenever they are criticized or evaluated or whatever the case may be, they want to see it through the lens of color rather than take a hard look at their performance to determine whether or not the criticism is something they should learn and grow from.
Yes, there's still some racism in America, but I don't think it's the predominant factor that keeps black Americans from achieving some of the highest levels of success. We've had a lot of success, and the ones that have succeeded at the highest levels will tell you how they've dealt with racism along their career, just like I have. It's called performance. Outperform the next person, and they will forget about what color you are.
Assuming this is the full transcript, isn't it strange that Cain would be downplaying the impact of racism in America, given that he believes a government-funded entity ("Planned Genocide" in his words) is committed to wiping black people off the face of the Earth? Stranger still that he doesn't even see fit to mention this vast, genocidal plot in an interview with a publication geared toward the very audience that is supposedly being driven to extinction. Shouldn't he be sounding the alarm?
It's almost as if the idea that the U.S. government is funding a genocidal campaign against black people and the argument that blacks need to stop acting like "victims" are irreconcilable, that the whole "black genocide" thing is a myth meant to reassure white conservatives that they're on the right side on issues of race, and doesn't bear any relationship towards any serious conversation about contemporary racism at all. Maybe that's why he forgot to mention it.
It occurs to me that the whole subtext of the abortion is "black genocide" meme is that conservatives are the real victims, since liberals literally get away with killing black people and still for some reason people think Republicans are racist.
