Yes, you read the headline correctly. Apparently Mr. Cain reminds NPR of the White Citizens Councils because of his negative comments about the Wall Street Occupiers.
Via Newsbusters:
NPR’s apparently a great place to go to denounce Herman Cain. On Friday’s edition of Tell Me More, host Michelle Martin cued up Cain’s remarks suggesting the Occupy Wall Street protests are “planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration.” Quite obviously, you can disagree with that theory without comparing Cain to segregationists.
But that’s precisely what sports columnist and ESPN regular Kevin Blackistone said to Martin: “It sounds like to me what people who used to run the White Citizens Councils used to say in the South during the civil rights movement, that it was outside agitators who were coming in and stirring up black folks down there.”
He added: “How disingenuous it is of a CEO of a company or anybody to make a suggestion that it is the unemployed’s fault that they are unemployed at a time when corporate America is breaking the record profits in 2011, is flushed with cash in terms of its coffers, and unemployed people are over 14 million. Absolutely disingenuous.”
This is the same left-wing columnist who suggested Israel should be banned from international sports competitions (except, er, the Olympics after that unfortunate Munich mass murder): “could it not be time for sport to illuminate Israel’s deadly occupation of Palestinians?”