Yes I know that you are thinking this MUST be a parody. But nope!
And no your ears are not deceiving you, one of the voices in that ad indeed belongs to ex-Godfather's Pizza CEO, radio host, and now candidate for the GOP Presidential ticket, Herman Cain. Which raises the question, "Is it possible for a black man to be a racist against his own people?"
The ad was put out in 2006 by a group calling themselves America's PAC. And they were trying to..to..hell what were they trying to do?
Well here let Herman Cain himself explain it to from an interview he gave to the
New York Sun:
"The main thing that America's Pac is up to is it basically is challenging the thesis or the belief on the part of the Republican Party that they cannot attract the black vote," Mr. Cain said. He said similar advertisements run in 2004 helped boost President Bush's share of the black vote in Ohio to 16%, from 9% in 2000."We don't believe that was an accident," Mr. Cain said. The IRS filing indicates that the ads are running this year in 10 battleground states, including Ohio, New Mexico, and Nevada.Mr. Cain, who once managed the Godfather's Pizza chain and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Georgia in 2004, said he was not troubled that Mr. Rooney, who is white, is funding ads using black voices who claim to speak on behalf of the black community."You don't have a lot of black billionaires who would want to fund something like this," he said.Gee, ya think?
You know I have to imagine that the NAACP feels toward Herman Cain about the same way that women's organizations feel toward Sarah Palin. They just want them to go far, far away.
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