When Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain controversially touted that black voters are brainwashed and not open to considering a conservative point of view, he found an ally in Pat Buchanan.
The conservative political commentator boldly agreed with Cain’s statement on a recent episode of MSNBC’s Martin Bashir show.
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Buchanan’s interpretation of Cain’s inciting statement is that “blacks bought a lot of propaganda on the liberal plantation.”
He contends that African Americans have embraced “great society liberalism” to their detriment and doing so has contributed to high numbers of black kids born out of wedlock and low high school graduation rates. Buchanan went on to say that he applauds the accomplishments of Cain because he went against the grain by succeeding as a tough black businessman in the face of adversity in a tough world.