Juana Summers flags Herman Cain's interview with the New York Times magazine, in which the lone black candidate of the cycle expands on comments related to race and the first black president that he has at times touched on during the campaign:
Q:Before you announced your campaign, you said that the liberal establishment is scared that ?a real black man might run against Barack Obama.? Are you suggesting Obama isn?t really black?
Cain: A real black man is not timid about making the right decisions, that?s what I meant. Look, I?m not getting into this whole thing about President Obama. It is documented that his mother was white and his father was from Africa. If he wants to call himself black, fine. If he wants to call himself African-American, fine. I?m not going down this color road.
Q:But you?re saying he?s not really a black man.
A: Not in terms of a strong black man that I?m identifying with. I identify with a strong black man like Martin Luther King Jr., or my dad, Luther Cain Jr., who didn?t have a lot of formal education, but he had a Ph.D. in common sense.
There's also a bit, on the lighter side, where Cain explains his penchant for third-person references:
Q:When did you start referring to yourself in the third person?
Cain: I?ve always done that.
Q: Since you were a kid? Like, ?Herman Cain is going to the grocery store to get Mom some eggs??
Continue ReadingCain: I don?t talk like that when I?m home. I don?t know. I?ve never really been conscious of it.
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