Cain Responds to Belafonte and West: 'The Only Tactic They Have to Try and Intimidate Me and Shut Me Up Is to Call Me Names'
By Noel Sheppard | October 11, 2011 | 00:28
As NewsBusters reported, Harry Belafonte and Princeton Professor Cornel West said some disgraceful things about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain Monday.
Appearing on Fox News's "Hannity" show, Cain replied, "The only tactic that they have to try and intimidate me and shut me up is to call me names" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Now you said perhaps somewhat you were a bit of a prophet, looking into your crystal ball, that, you know, now that you are surging in the polls you said there's a bulls-eye on your back. I saw tonight that Harry Belafonte said that Herman Cain is a totally false bad apple in the black community. And Cornel West said the following. I want you to watch this.
HERMAN CAIN, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Alright.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN: What do you make of what Herman Cain said? He did acknowledge that racism exists, but he says, you know, it doesn't matter that much. That more of it is about actually working hard and making opportunities happen for yourself.
CORNEL WEST, Class of 1943 university professor, Princeton University: Well one, black people have been working hard for decades. I think he needs it get off the symbolic crack pipe and acknowledge that the evidence is overwhelming.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANNITY: Get off the symbolic crack pipe? You are a totally false bad apple in the black community? Don't you find those things offensive?
CAIN: Yeah, I do find them offensive. Okay. Let me respond to Professor West first. That's the difference between someone who has spent their life in academia and someone who has spent their life in the real world. I've been in the real world. He's been in academia. So he's back on this symbolic stuff. As far as Harry Belafonte’s comment, look, I left the Democrat plantation a long time ago. And all that they try to do when someone like me -- and I'm not the only black person out there that shares these conservative views -- the only tactic that they have to try and intimidate me and shut me up is to call me names, and, and this sort of thing. It just simply won't work. Professor West has been in academia too long. He is out of touch with the real world.
Readers are advised to review "CNN Hosts Leftists Saying Cain Should Get Off 'Crack Pipe'" and "Belafonte Attacks Cain: 'A Bad Apple' 'So Denied Intelligence' 'I Don’t Think Prayers Were Created For Him'" to better understand the level of vitriol Cain was defending himself against.
Just imagine what he'll have to put up with from folks like these if he actually wins the nomination and faces Barack Obama next November.
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Comments
Once again the Herminator does it best
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:40am.
He always has the correct response. As long as he sticks with his principles and doesn't get involved in petty political fights with other candidates, he will do well. It will be so refreshing when we actually nominate and then have a president that isn't a career politician.
We Are The 53%
Not The "Right Kind"
Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 8:59am.
Add Herman Cain to the list of "not the right kind" of African-Americans. Already on the list are Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Walter E. Williams, Clarence Thomas, Delroy Murdock and Ward Connerly.
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If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
Alan Keyes
Submitted by Karma on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 9:27am.
Alan Keyes
Amen Denny
Submitted by 767pilot on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:20am.
Herman Cain has my racist, conservative, Tea Party vote. It is so telling to watch the left's collective head explode when a straight forward, conservative black man tells the truth. It threatens their whole victim narrative.
We have now arrived at the
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 6:52am.
We have now arrived at the day in America where a black man is villified by other black men, because he doesn't fit their black stereotype.
Wow MB
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 7:45am.
Talk about nailing the truth in a simple sentence.
Amazing how twisted they make things.
We Are The 53%
Isn't This...
Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:42am.
...the definition of bigotry?
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If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
MB~
Submitted by Georgia Girl on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:55am.
Brilliantly stated.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" -- Ronald Reagan
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Let's make him proud in 2012*I'd say that if Cain has
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:31am.
I'd say that if Cain has racist/communist/socialist/alibi-ridden dopes like Harry 'Day-O' Belefonte (what the hell has that guy done in the past................50 years???............besides live off his name and attack the country that gave him a pretty good life??) and Cornell West - who NEEDS the government to keep him employed - attacking him and calling him names, then he ought to feel proud about it - because that means they are afraid of the fact that he is telling the truth about their whole 'race' scam!!!!!
F*ck Cornel West, and the horse he rode in on
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:43am.
This stinking communist puke racist of a mother-f'ing "professor" should have been thrown up against a wall and shot DRT* as the traitor he is to America three decades ago.
*Dead Right There.
YOU GO, HERMAN!
As for the rest of what was once America, wake the f' up, you stoopid zombie sheeple!
You are fast running out of time.
-Dave
Okay, I'm going flying now, as I am about to get banned
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:02am.
My BP has now gone well beyond the critical range, and has now entered the Oh sh*t, I'm dead area.
Think I'll go shoot some landings in a 30 knot 45 degree crosswind.
It relaxes me.
Dave
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, relax
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:40am.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, relax Dave...........with an adult beverage and your flying game...don't worry about getting banned, because you've got too many buddies to 'get your back'. And anyway - did you say something wrong????
Dave~
Submitted by Georgia Girl on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:06pm.
This is all they've got. It's the only defense against Cain. And because all they've got is idiotic, ugly and racist, they've got no real defense.
It's too in-your-face idiotic, ugly and racist even for the sheep out there...which takes some doing, but they've actually accomplished that.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" -- Ronald Reagan
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Let's make him proud in 2012*From one elevated BP patient
Submitted by marpel on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:44pm.
From one elevated BP patient to another....it's not worth the stroke, Dave...LOL
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
marpel/Dave~
Submitted by Georgia Girl on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:57pm.
Well, if Obama is re-elected, I will probably have bp issues as well!
But yeah, shut the world out for awhile when you need to, Dave.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" -- Ronald Reagan
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Let's make him proud in 2012*I think that you can view both Belafonte and Cornel West
Submitted by TheHistorian on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 4:21am.
I think you can view Belafonte, West (Cornel), Sharpton, etc as being the Judas goats for the black people. They will lead them to the slaughterhouse of Democrat politics, escaping the slaughter themselves in exchange for betraying the others. This is very evident with the vile things they say about Herman Cain, a man who grew up black and has made something of himself, and Barack Obama, the man that never grew up and is only where he is because the Democrats made him out to be something he isn't. It is a real tragedy when black people have people like Michael Vick and Snoop Doggy Dog as their heroes and revile men who have achieved greatness like Messrs. Cain and Clarence Thomas.
I would bet today that the black politicians would have similar things to say about Booker T. Washington and all of the legendary black people that have given great contributions to this country. If they ever figure out that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was really a Republican, imagine what they might have to say about him.
Herman, continue to be above the contemptuous behavior of Belafonte, Cornel West, etc. God be with you.
Dennis Prager
Same old song
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 4:42am.
Didn't the same black 'leaders' and 'experts' attack the flaming liberal Bill Cosby when he said that maybe, just maybe, blacks should take some small measure of personal responsibility for their own lives and the results of their actions?
Cornel West and Harry
Submitted by DaChew on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 5:50am.
Cornel West and Harry Bellafonte don't think much of Herman Cain.
Huh, and I thought it was going to be hard to pick who to vote for in the primaries.
In a similar vein, I remarked
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:15am.
In a similar vein, I remarked to my semi-Conservative neighbor last week that all the local election political signs on my other Liberal neighbors' front yards helped me to know who not to vote for.
I forget who scolded me for
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 6:45am.
I forget who scolded me for not "getting" him, but I'm starting to see what you saw!
So can we?
Yes we CAIN!!!
Ronald Reagan
I was one Amy, but I think "scold" is a bit harsh. :)
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 8:54am.
There were a couple of others in that thread that suggested you look
closer at Cain, and I believe I provided a link for you.
Glad to see you're coming around.
restless 1
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 12:02am.
I didn't take it as harsh, just as a "do your homework" nudge. I appreciated the link btw!
Ronald Reagan
Mr. Cain is such a gentleman
Submitted by HelenS on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 7:00am.
Mr. Cain is such a gentleman and I love his unruffled style. Besides which, he doesn't sink into the sewer with the rats who are trying to toss their excrement at him.
I am SO going to vote for this man.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Here's a slogan for his campaign
Submitted by Sua Sponte on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 7:09am.
"Cain you handle the truth"
Morning Schmo
Submitted by Gat New York on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 7:44am.
West and Smiley were on the Morning Schmo Show a little while ago and Joe Scareborrow never asked either of them about their comments on Herman Cain. And not long before that Scareborrow sarcastically complained how Republicans called him names like RHINO.
Plantation owners
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 8:36am.
The plantation owners must be leaning really heavily on the "black community" to go after Cain like this.
While I'm still harboring reservations about Cain himself, I find it not a little comical that they are going this far and as MB said above, he's not fitting the stereotype, nay, he's defying it, therefore he's defying the masters. And at the same time, the overseers, like those in the Congressional Black Caucus(Waters, Lewis, etc), are trying like hell to honor their masters' wishes.
Who said slavery was over in this country? I'm not seeing it.
-Jon
Cain is far and away better
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 9:20am.
Cain is far and away better in terms of class, intelligence, wisdom, and wit than West, Belfonte, Smiley, Jackson-Lee, and other libs who have been attacking him with ad hominem, smears and other words of desperation (thus showing once again that the libs have nothing substantive).
Beuk, don't forget to include
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:53pm.
Beuk, don't forget to include that immature, petulant little punk-ass Boy Barry in your list!!! He isn't qualified to shine Cains shoes, OR serve him coffee!!!!
west is nothing but an
Submitted by sometimesright on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 9:42am.
west is nothing but an educated "mouth". no job experience except "educating" our youts. imho west hates cain for one reason.......cain doesn't need them and never will. this professor is getting schooled by the pizza guy! i love it.
Cornell West and Harry Belafonte have decided to remain
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:15am.
on the plantation by being "enslaved by liberalism," to quote a Rush anecdote.
Cain by far and away has my vote, plus he just out-polled everyone in SC. Way to go Mr. Cain and please, please, please stay away from the partisan bullcrap the others will try to draw you in. We need a non-establishment kind of person in DC to go along with some of the other Tea partiers we have in Congress.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 11:11am.
Nothing is more threatening to guilty white liberals than a black person who wanders off the liberal plantation and finally figures out that he can do just fine on his own, without his condescending white liberal overseers and their family destroying policies.
Therefore.......Herman Cain must be destroyed, at all costs!!
The Race Industry must be preserved, at all costs!!
Cornell West
Submitted by adlibn on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:08pm.
If Herman Cain were on crack he would fit Cornell West's stereotype of a black man.
Ironic how Cornell West appears as if he constantly huffs glue.
American Thinker~
Submitted by Georgia Girl on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:25pm.
Interesting article on Cain:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/why_america_needs_herman_cain.html
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" -- Ronald Reagan
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Let's make him proud in 2012*West, put down that crack pipe.
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:57pm.
"Well one, black people have been working hard for decades. I think he needs it get off the symbolic crack pipe and acknowledge that the evidence is overwhelming."
Yes, they have been working hard. Cain himself is a shinning example of a black person working hard for decades and, by doing so, achieving things on his own, which makes me wonder just what the hell West is talking about.
Cain is telling others that they can achieve just as much as he did (or more), simply by applying themselves just as he did. So, Mr. Professor, just what do you see wrong with that? YOU just proved Cain's point succinctly. WHY are you so reluctant to acknowledge it?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Herman Caine has been a
Submitted by marpel on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:41pm.
Herman Caine has been a favorite of mine since the beginning. He refuses to associate himself with black men who still see themselves as victims instead of achievers. You can thank that victim mindset on the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. It's terrible what just those two have done to the mindset of the modern black man. Herman Caine is no victim, and he's an enormous achiever. I think he may just achieve winning the nomination. I'd like to see that happen.
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
Grandpop always said...
Submitted by LinTaylor on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:40pm.
You know, my grandfather always said that people only use swear words and insults because they aren't intelligent enough to think of anything better to say.
And now the Left's venomous, bigoted response to their ultimate nightmare, an intelligent, well-spoken and charismatic black Republican, is proving Grandpop's homespun wisdom 100% correct.
Cain in debate:
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 2:53pm.
To the black community - look beyond the rhetoric, the accusations and promises. For 50 years the blacks have been a loyal voter for the Democrats and are your schools better off? Are your inner cities better off? Are there less blacks in jail? Have the drugs and violence been taken out of your neighborhoods? Don't you believe you deserve better than what your loyalty has bought for the last 50 years?
The rest of America: are you better off than you were 4 years and 4 trillion dollars ago?
Herman Cain, Hell Yea!
Submitted by billwhit1357 on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 4:04am.
The more I listen to this man, the more I like him. Made it on his own, worked hard all his life, never played the victim like so many others, tells it exactly like it is! I pray he wins the nomination! Belfonte's brain is dead and West, the scumbag who can't stand for decent white women to win at the music awards, what lowlife scum! If they would sell some of their many cars, they could donate the money for a good cause, but will they? Hell No!
billwhit1357
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 9:35am.
billwhit135 - you confused Cornell West with Kanye West. And I'm pretty sure Kanye was upset FOR his friend, not about Taylor Swift being white.
Ronald Reagan
Herman Cain, Hell Yea!
Submitted by billwhit1357 on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 4:05am.
The more I listen to this man, the more I like him. Made it on his own, worked hard all his life, never played the victim like so many others, tells it exactly like it is! I pray he wins the nomination! Belfonte's brain is dead and West, the scumbag who can't stand for decent white women to win at the music awards, what lowlife scum! If they would sell some of their many cars, they could donate the money for a good cause, but will they? Hell No!