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(Newsbusters) — On the same Morning Edition broadcast that made time to honor Obama’s tender concern for veterans, black NPR reporter/Obama supporter Karen Grigsby Bates ripped into Herman Cain with a chorus of condemnation from black liberals.
Harvard professor Randall Kennedy claimed “Black people know that if Herman Cain had his way, their lives would be diminished.” Former Time reporter Jack E. White added “Herman Cain tells them what they want to hear about blacks, and in turn, they embrace him and say, see, that proves we aren’t racist. He’s even willing to be a minstrel for them.”
BATES: Kennedy says many black Americans find a recent ad run by Cain supporters to be particularly offensive. In it, Americans for Herman Cain compare then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas’ angry statement about sexual harassment charges he faced in 1991 to Cain’s current predicament.
THOMAS ON TAPE: This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
JACK WHITE: That analogy is one that rubs a lot of black people the wrong way because, frankly, if you’re lynched, you don’t get to talk about it.
BATES: Jack White writes political analysis for TheRoot.com. [Bates doesn’t note she’s also written her Obama praise for them.] He believes Cain and his white supporters have struck a bargain.
WHITE: Basically, Herman Cain tells them what they want to hear about blacks, and in turn, they embrace him and say, see, that proves we aren’t racist. He’s even willing to be a minstrel for them, referring to himself sometimes as Cornbread, or quoting his father as speaking ungrammatically, as saying, you know, things like I does not care.