Cain Called a Minstrel on NBC News

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TOURE: I think that Cain, interestingly, does not exist without Obama preceding him. He rights the ship in a lot of people’s minds or rights the scales. Because Obama is alpha. He is brilliant. He’s a man you had to take seriously. He’s a constitutional law professor that you had to take seriously when he spoke.

Cain sort of reasserts the scales the way people want it to be. He’s charismatic and his ideas are not serious or well thought out. There is this constant minstrelsy aspect. He is the one who says he wants the secret service to call him “corn bread.” He says things like oh, “shucky ducky.” This is deep black slang he is using that we have not seen on a national public stage before and in the yellow flower ad that you brought out on your show a few days ago, isn’t he the one that gets punched in his own ad? What sort of man who presents himself as alpha and wanting to be the leader of the free world would get punched in his own campaign ad? It doesn’t make any sense.

And yet Cain allows the GOP to have this sort of force we’re not racist we are supporting this black man. even at the same time he admits this myth of black civility and self about negation and you don’t have to take us seriously sort of thing. That Obama threw it out of whack because you had to take him dead seriously.