I'm listening to them discuss it on TV. They showed a clip from a Cain interview from yesterday. He was asked why, since he lived in Atlanta, Georgia why he didn't march. He said the marchers were college students and he was in high school. It was pointed out that he was at MLK's college from 1963 to 1967, and in his 20's. He said that his father taught them not to get in trouble and they if they were told to move to the back of the bus, they moved to the back of the bus. Cain was asked what would have happened if Rosa Parks followed his father's advice, where would blacks be today? He said his father didn't give advice to Rosa Parks and at this point, became very, very angry and said, "Don't tell me how to be black".
Now this is a guy who has questioned Obama's "blackness and Americanism" and calls other blacks "brainwashed". A man who sat in the back of the bus and lied about why he wasn't "involved". MLK would would not be a Republican today. Cain received benefits he didn't earn. That much is clear.
Amen! I watch it yesterday and today. Cain is certainly not a role model for blacks!
So now we have to have role models for blacks and role models for whites?
Then for goodness sakes why in the hell do we have MLK day for everyone? I thought you dismissed the color and admired the courage and peaceful ways to make a point? Black didn't make Martin Luther King great. It was his mind, his courage and leadership.
So, if you feel you need a role model for blacks, go sit at the back of a bus. The rest of us will admire greatness when we see it in a person and not their skin.