Herman Cain Restaurant Association President 1996 - 1999 - photo: BET
If there were a term for the situation Herman Cain finds himself in at the moment, one might term it; Political Racial Discrimination. After all, African American’s have traditionally been a voting bloc for the Democrat Party, and there are few, if any, Conservative African American’s in federal office. When an African American Conservative runs for office (regardless of the office: They are met by scorn from the white press, and from the African American Press – the most common charges: Uncle Tom and Oreo Cookie, referring to the candidate as one who either works for a “white” person, and/or is “white on the inside” and therefore not qualified, nor authentic. It is political assassination due to a combination of race and political affiliation. Herman Cain is a prime example, as these claims have been made in the press (name calling for the most part), and now he is subject to a repeat performance of character assassination – which appears to have everything to do with the fact that he is a) a Conservative, and b) an African American. One would hazard to guess, if Cain were a registered Democrat running for office, the first claims, let alone the repeat performance, would not have existed.
In 1999 Herman Cain made a short-term bid (more of an exploration) into the possibility of running for the Office of the President. From March through July of 1999 (FEC – more on filing status hereCain flirted with the idea of mountain a challenge to then Candidate John McCain (Bush was the eventual nominee), terminating his campaign in July of that year. Just prior to forming his committee and during the time he was forming the committee - three woman made charges of sexual harassment against Mr. Cain – as a Conservative African American Candidate for President. After his bid ended, (and cash was in hand), they disappeared.
Oddly enough, as soon as Mr. Cain picked up some traction in the polls, these same activists came forth with the old allegations. Considering the “severance packages” (not settlements) were of no large amount, and based on allegations without witness (hearsay), it appears that this is phase II of the original campaign to undermine Mr. Cain’s political ambitions.
Although Cain casts himself as an outsider, and it is true the campaign in 1999 did not get off the ground being terminated in July of that year - (last severance paid in September) it goes without saying it is “mighty odd” that these same claimants (all connected in some way to Washington and one in particular to the Democrat Party) are coming forth anonymously (of course) in what appears to be an attempt to knock Mr. Cain out of the 2011 race.
This certainly brings up a few questions regarding a conservative African American attempting to run for office/or for that matter stand for an appointment to the Supreme Court. It is odd, that with cases such as this, there are suddenly women, who wish to remain anonymous, making claims of sexual misconduct against the later. Claims, it might be noted, that have no witnesses, and, again, are based on hearsay. (i.e. Additional sources that wish to remain anonymous said “she told us about the incident” (paraphrasing Politico reports (page after page of Politico reports). Cain suggested a high-tech lynching; however, one might wonder how many other qualified Conservative African American’s have been derailed from running for office by the very same tactics?
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