CAIN the pot calling a kettle black..Making much ado about nothing...

Cain: Perry camp sign 'just plain insensitive'

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain criticized the name of a hunting camp once leased by Gov. Rick Perry's family as "just plain insensitive" in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Cain who approved a series of mildly racist commercials when he was CEO of Godfather's Pizza.. Thinks a painted rock that maybe a few hundred people saw is insensitive but not a commercial that thousands saw? Commercial 1 

Cain who paid for, approved and intentionally had several Godfather Pizza commercials made that were considered mild racism.

The allegation of “mild racism” is interesting. I assume that the literati at TheAtlantic are referring to the demeaning caricature which plays upon stereotypes of a racial group.
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·        **And I agree with The Atlantic. 
I take deep offense at the presentation of the fat, doofus-looking middle aged white guy in the commercial. The shirt-button-popping, dumb-as-a-door-knob, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen caricature has a racially tinged subtext, if not a ”mildly racist” text.
Isn’t that the “mild racism” to which The Atlantic folks were referring? After all, Herman Cain is black, so The Atlantic editors would not possibly suggest, in a very backhanded way, that Herman Cain allowed his company to express ”mild racism” towards blacks, would they?
Oh yes they would.

·      I guess that is the “mildly racist” part.
**Two wacky, over-the-top caricatures in a pizza commercial. Why is one funny, and the other “mildly racist”?
Or maybe I have it all wrong. Maybe both characters are “mildly racist.” This race card stuff is very confusing.
Regardless, take a look at this demeaning presentation of middle-aged white guys in another Godfather’s commercial. There seems to be a pattern of pizza-encrusted anti-middle-aged-white-guy-ism prejudice running throughout Godfather’s advertising

Let me get this straight Cain thinks a painted rock that Perry had nothing to do with on piece of property that was originally leased from the owner of the property by Perry's father, is insensitive?  Perry went hunting there so therefore it's his fault he didn't take action.

·        1. It wasn't his property

·        2. Have you ever heard  Habituation is an extremely simple form of learning, in which a person, after a period of exposure to a stimulus, stops responding. If Perry saw this in passing it may have never paid any attention to because it had been there for an extended period of time.

Sullivan said the governor's father, Ray, painted over the name in the early 1980s. That conflicts with the accounts of seven sources who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity. They claim the offensive name was visible during the 1980s and 1990s, when Perry launched his political career, with one source saying the word.

Sullivan, in a response to NBC News' Carrie Dann, disputed the accuracy of those accounts.

"The rock was obscured in 1983 or 1984 and remained so," he said. "Named interviewees in the story corroborate that. The story has no named sources seeing the name on the rock in later 80s and 90s claim and those unnamed sources contradict one another."

Sullivan said Perry's last visit to the property was in December 2006, and that he stopped leasing it in 2007. The Perry campaign says the story's suggestion that Perry brought guests to the property when the offensive language was visible is also false.

When asked about the name on the rock last week, Perry reportedly told the Post it is "offensive name that has no place in the modern world."

The Post reported that the phrase was still "faintly visible" beneath a coat of white paint as recently as this past summer.The Post story acknowledges the rock had been painted and turned over. The Perrys did not own, name or control the property, they simply rented hunting rights to 1,000 acres of the ranch.
As Gov. Perry told the Washington Post, "The old name has its origins from another time and era when unfortunately, offensive language was used to name some land formations around the country. When my dad joined the lease in 1983, he soon painted over the offensive word. It is my understanding that the rock was also turned over to further obscure what was originally written on it."

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