Nothing racist about that at all...

[kpete]

Bryan Fischer: Unlike President Obama, Herman Cain Is "Authentically Black"

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He can't talk enough about how white he is and how white his heritage is. And you compare that to, say, Herman Cain - you know, Herman Cain was just joking around about being the real Black man in the presidential race and President Obama kind of helping reinforce what Herman Cain has said in jest.

President Obama is half-white, and half-black; Herman Cain is all black; he's authentically black; he is the real black man in the race.

So we'll see how all of that plays out. I mean, President Obama celebrating his Irish heritage, I mean there is just something about that I just find, I just find that comical, frankly.

MORE + video:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-unlike-president-obama-herman-cain-authentically-black
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/real-deal.html

[atreides1]

1. Go back far enough

And you'll probably find Mr. Cain isn't as authentic as he likes to think he is!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

2. Obama Might Be Half-Black, But Cain Equals Him...........

........by only having half-a-shot-in-hell of winning the Republican nomination, let alone the Presidency. Maybe they'll let him cater the event, though, since he's a pizza guy and all.

[msanthrope]

3. Wow. Sounds like Cornel West--

"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation. When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening. And that’s true for a white brother. When you get a white brother who meets a free, independent black man, they got to be mature to really embrace fully what the brother is saying to them. It’s a tension, given the history. It can be overcome. Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_went_ballistic_20110516/

[seabeyond]

6. +1. i like cornell west. was bummed he went here. nt

[pipi_k]

4. Oh for crissakes....

Now it's "racist" to point out that someone is "more authentically black" than someone else because there's apparently no Caucasian in him?

I didn't read the entire article, but is Bryan Fischer saying that Cain is somehow superior to Obama because he's "authentically black"? More intelligent? Funnier? More honorable? More moral?

Would it be "racist" for a full blooded Native American to point out that he's more authentically Native American than someone else who is half white?

oy...

[Common Sense Party]

5. Someone on another thread is all worked up because NPR said the

Republicans are hoping for their "white knight" to come along.

People hear what they want to hear. Those who are looking for evidence of racism will find racism, even where no evidence exists.

[msanthrope]

7. Yes. Denial of other's identity is a racist act.

This is 'identity conflict' writ small--it's caused genocide, writ larger.