Herman Cain on Why ‘The Black Guy Is Winning’: Jeffrey Goldberg
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June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Herman Cain, the beguilinglypersonable pizza mogul and Tea Party sweetheart who is showingwell in the so-far uncompelling Republican presidentialnomination campaign, threw a flag early in an interview Iconducted with him last week. I had made the dire mistake ofreferring to him as African-American.
“I am an American. Black. Conservative,” he said,punctuating each aspect of his self-identity. “I don’t useAfrican-American, because I’m American, I’m black and I’mconservative. I don’t like people trying to label me. African-American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am notsome people.”