Herman Cain steps up to microphones at the Willard hotel on Monday after a two-day meeting of a dozen black conservatives that he pulled together. Mr. 9-9-9 has come out of the meetings with a catchy name for his group. They are the ABCs — American Black Conservatives.
The former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza acted as something of a godfather to the ABCs, including the famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has reaped his share of controversy of late for his remarks lumping together homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality. The pair were joined by the founder of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, a former Ohio secretary of state, a former U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, a radio personality and a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., who has become a conservative activist.
Together, they are searching for solidarity at what appears to be a critical juncture for minorities in a Republican Party that has acknowledged it is too old and too white to keep pace with an increasingly diverse electorate. And Cain is putting himself out front. Again.
“When black conservatives are attacked, they sometimes are more viciously attacked than white conservatives,” Cain says. “One of the themes of this meeting is: We will not be silenced; if anything, our voice collectively will be stronger.”
Carson, for one, hasn’t exactly been silent in recent weeks. Earlier this month, he gave as good as he got as part of a Fox News segment focused on black conservatives and during an appearance on a conservative talk radio show hosted by Mark Levin, where he called white liberal critics “the most racist people there are because they put you in a little category, a box: ‘You have to think this way, how could you dare come off the [liberal] plantation?’ ”
2012 Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain makes a stop tonight at Morehouse College in Atlanta, his Alma Mater. You must R.s.v.p. to attend this free event.
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