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Herman Cain, the beguilingly personable pizza mogul and Tea Party sweetheart who is showing well in the so-far uncompelling Republican presidential nomination campaign, threw a flag early in an interview I conducted with him last week. I had made the dire mistake of referring to him as African-American.
I am an American. Black. Conservative, he said, punctuating each aspect of his self-identity. I dont use African-American, because Im American, Im black and Im conservative. I dont like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people. What is it about the word African that the candidate doesnt particularly appreciate?
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America, he said, hitting those last four words with a hammer. And then it goes back to slavery. And Im sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. Im a black man in America.
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