The Night They Drove Old Dixie Back Up....

Herman Cain is his name and for right now he is the chocolate fantasy of the Republican party. Allen West? Alan Keyes? Neither of these guys had any street cred with the real Black community but Brother Cain is a member of Atlanta's old money Black elite. Old school mega church going, conservative in the way every family has some church folk who just aint hearing all that liberal stuff about diversity and inclusion. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that he is doing as well as he is among these rabid racists. But what does surprise me is how I'm hearing the same claptrap about his campaign that I heard about four years ago about another long shot Black man.  How he just doesn't have the "gravitas" to actually pull this off.  How he doesn't have the campaign structure or support staff to run a national campaign.  He doesn't have enough experience for anyone to take this candidate seriously.  So when a Black man, whether Democrat or Republican, decides to run for the highest office it is pretty much a knee jerk reaction from the media that they must ask about his experience and his resources. But when each election cycle produces a never ending stream of inexperienced, under funded, hubris filled white guys and women who think they should be the next leader of the free world, the media looks them up and down in a totally different way and one thing I have never heard when listening to the pundits do the daily handicapping...I have never heard even one pundit ever talk about a white candidate and postulate that a certain political position will cost them the white vote.  But yet, that's exactly how Black candidates, even the president, are still evaluated.  How does this decision or that position affect the Black community. But never, ever do you hear anyone wondering how Newt Gingrich's position on NAFTA will play in the white community.  Dixie is alive and well and it's called the political press corps.