Another coronavirus fatality
Maybe now they will pay attention?
Herman Cain, a onetime Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, has died from coronavirus, according to an obituary sent from his verified Twitter account and Newsmax, where he was launching a television show.
I wonder how he caught it.
As a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, Cain was one of the surrogates at President Donald Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma — which saw at least eight Trump advance team staffers in attendance test positive for coronavirus. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh has told CNN that Cain did not meet with Trump at the Tulsa rally.
Trump was out face to facing with people in Texas yesterday, not wearing a mask.
Nope.
He was black. Not one of them.
Steven, it has been my experience that when a black man is suitably Republican, especially if they are doing the sorts of things Republicans do, many Republicans consider them “not-black”. I don’t think they quite consider them to be white, but they do move into a special category.
My dad never regarded J. C. Watts as black; he would actually refer to him as a white man (which is something he doesn’t do when the man he is referencing is actually white; that’s why I say it’s a special category). Clarence Thomas is another of the “not-black” politicians. Yes, they have black skin, but they don’t “act black”, at least in the way people like my dad think of it.
A post, soon taken down, on Cain’s twitter feed declared that his funeral would be unmasked.