So says "Herb" Cain, reacting to Harry Belafonte's comment about him.
Cain truly has no sense of decency.
Harry Belafonte, appearing on The Joy Behar Show installment to air on Friday, voiced his opinion about "Herb" Cain. Harry called "Herb" a "bad apple" and not an “authority on the plight of people of color.”
“[Cain] doesn’t believe that racism holds anyone back, in any way now,” Behar told Belafonte. “What do you think about that statement?”
“It’s very hard to comment on somebody who is so denied intelligence – and certainly who is denied a view of history, such as he reveals. He knows very little. Because he happened to have good fortune, because he happened to have had a moment when he broke through – the moment someone blinked – does not make him the authority on the plight of people of color,” the singer said.
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"Herb's" reaction?
As far as Harry Belafonte’s comment, look, I left the Democratic plantation a long time ago. And all that they try to do when someone like me — and I’m not the only black person out there that shares these conservative views – the only tactic that they have to try and intimidate me and shut me up is to call me names, and this sort of thing. It just simply won’t work.
I find it totally disgusting that "Herb" would invoke the "plantation" metaphor. He really is a sorry excuse for a human being. At least he did not call it the "Democrat Plantation." Thank goodness for small favors.
Harry Belafonte also continued his prior attacks on Colin Powell and Condi Rice. It is obvious that Mr. Belafonte has no use for the Republican Party.
[Update: Comments below indicate that "Herb, and I have put the name in quotation marks, did in fact speak of the "Democrat Plantation." Uggh.]
“The Republican Party, the Tea Party, all those forces to the extreme right, have consistently tried to come up with representation for what they call black, for what they call the real Negroes and try to push these images as the kinds of voices that Americans should be listening to,” Belafonte said.