Toure: Cain Serves "Psychological Purpose" Giving "Comfort To Racists"
MSNBC’s single-named expert on race Toure (one-word name) once again joined “The Last Word” to further his effort to delegitimize Herman Cain as a black man and black conservatives in general. Toure says Herman Cain did not handle the response to Politico’s accusations of him in a “presidential way,” much less a “professional way.” “This is a major moment for the GOP,” Toure says about a vulnerable Herman Cain. “Because Cain is a really important candidate, perhaps more important than any of the other candidates because he serves a massive psychological purpose.” “There’s a lot of people in the GOP who have been critical of Obama, and have been made to feel that they are racist, because of their criticism. Some of it has been racist, some of it’s been reasonable, some of it has been business as usual Republican/Democrat stuff, okay. Cain comes along, offering salvation, liberation. You’re not racist if you support Herman Cain. So now they have this ‘Herman Cain card’ they can throw at us any time they are made to feel racist. So this is like a beautiful thing for them. So they need him to succeed as long as they can deal with him so that they can get their Cain card and make it as valuable as possible,” Toure told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. “But, of course this whole transaction is actually a canard,” Toure finished. When asked in what way his campaign is a canard, Toure says Cain is “giving comfort to racism.” “Herman Cain is giving comfort to racism the way that he purports himself as we’ve discussed before on this show. So, I mean, this is not the person that you can hold up and say ‘See, I’m not a racist, I love Herman Cain,’” Toure told MSNBC.
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