“A limited-time shoe sale at New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue turned into a mad dash for shoes and checkout spots before the sale expired, witnesses said.

Witnesses said the 4-hour, 60-percent sale that ended at noon Monday produced a frenzy over Oscar de la Renta and Christian Louboutin footwear, as well as people jockeying for position in line to reach the cashier before the sale ended, the New York Daily News reported.” — UPI

The release of Nike’s Air Jordan XI Retro Concords last Friday (December 23) caused riots at shopping malls across the nation. The cable news outlets replayed video ad nauseam of young black men shoving and even fighting each other to get their hands on the coveted sneakers.

New Nike Air Jordan XI Concord Causes Shopping Frenzy In Indianapolis

The comment sections of the Web sites than ran this story were brimming over with the most racist statements I’ve read in a long time. African Americans were called every ugly name you can think of: Gorillas, beasts, thugs, porch monkeys, gangstas….

The isolated incidents of violence over Nike’s Air Jordan sneakers were used as a metaphor for the pathologies of the African American community.

I wonder what these racist self-styled sociologists have to say about the riot over designer shoes at New York City’s Saks Fifth Avenue? Security guards had to clear out the shoe department, and I doubt Saks will ever again hold a sale of this nature.

Are the folks who were so incensed over the Nike riots going to use this incident to condemn an entire class of people? Will they declare that this incident demonstrates the inherent lawlessness of the upper class?

I don’t think so. Hypocrites!

People are people, it doesn’t matter if they are urban youth or trendy fashionistas. Whenever a department store holds a limited-hour sale with very few items of a coveted product available– chaos will ensue.

By Robert Paul Reyes

Follow Robert Paul Reyes on Twitter: http://twitter.com/robertpaulreyes

“Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.

Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops ‘with real guns and real bullets’ on the border to stop illegal immigration.” [ READ MORE ]

If a white presidential candidate declared that as part of his anti-crime policy he would build an electrified fence around inner cities, because it’s an indisputable fact that blacks commit crimes way of proportion to their numbers. And he went on to say to that he would urge the police to use real guns and real bullets instead of tasers against law-breaking blacks; he would be universally condemned as a racist.

Only a racist believes that most African Americans who live in the inner city are violence prone. There are many hard-working blacks, who obey the law, pay their taxes, who are trapped in the ghetto through no fault of their own.

Cain’s inflammatory words should be condemned by Democrats, Republicans, Independents and everybody else who hates racism.

Herman Cain is pandering to the vilest instincts of the Tea Party crowd. Mr. Cain, how low will you descend to win the Republican nomination?

As an Hispanic I am outraged by Cain’s depiction of undocumented workers as subhuman. Most migrants of Latin descent are hardworking and law-abiding; they seek only to improve the fortunes of their families.

I urge African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities to think twice before voting for Cain. His pernicious tomfoolery has no place in a democracy.

By Robert Paul Reyes

Follow Robert Paul Reyes on Twitter: http://twitter.com/robertpaulreyes

   By: DeWayne Wickham
The truth is, most blacks are conservative on issues of religion, education and crime. But for the vast majority of blacks, race is a survival issue that trumps all others. To most blacks, the GOP push for more “states’ rights” (a battle cry of the Confederacy) and a smaller federal government (which many blacks believe will threaten their hard-won civil rights protections) is an assault on them.

Energized by his surprise victory in Florida’s GOP straw poll, Herman Cain quickly sought to strengthen his standing among conservatives by giving them something that no other GOP presidential candidate can — absolution on the haunting issue of race.

“Many African Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view,” Cain, the only black in the field of announced Republican presidential contenders, said during an interview on CNN.

Herman Cain — Uncle Ruckus, A Butt-Licking Uncle Tom

[ REF: MORE REASONS WHY BLACKS DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN ]

By pinning the overwhelming support blacks give Democratic presidential candidates on some Svengali-like, forced manipulation of their minds, Cain relieves GOP conservatives of any responsibility for chasing the majority of black voters out of the party of Abraham Lincoln.

By blaming black mindlessness for this flight, Cain ignores the race-baiting “Southern strategy” that virtually every Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon has used as a wedge issue to win the backing of Southern whites. By suggesting that most black voters are herded to the polls like sheep by liberal Democrats, he leaves no need for the GOP to explain why blacks, who have a strong conservative streak, have largely abandoned the Republican Party. Instead of telling the GOP voters he courts some hard truths, Cain courts them with doublespeak about black voters, who he later told CNN “more and more” are thinking for themselves and would likely vote for him in large numbers if he ends up in a general election showdown with Barack Obama.

The truth is, most blacks are conservative on issues of religion, education and crime. But for the vast majority of blacks, race is a survival issue that trumps all others. To most blacks, the GOP push for more “states’ rights” (a battle cry of the Confederacy) and a smaller federal government (which many blacks believe will threaten their hard-won civil rights protections) is an assault on them.

I suspect Cain knows this. But as with just about every Republican black elected official, he’s more interested in courting white voters than black voters. The last time a black Republican won election to a national office from a majority black district was in 1932, when voters in Illinois’ first congressional district re-elected Oscar De Priest to his third — and final — term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Most black Republicans elected to Congress since then have done so with the embrace of the conservative GOP voters they had to court. And most of those black Republicans, in one way or another, sought to immunize their party against the charge of racism — often in the face of compelling evidence of its intolerant treatment of blacks.

Cain is the latest in this long line of black Republicans. What distinguishes him from the rest are the impressive showing he made in an early voter test of the GOP’s presidential candidates and his claim that a sizable number of blacks would abandon the Democratic Party and vote for him in 2012. The first may say more about the weakness of GOP opponents than Cain’s strength. The other would be laughable if it were not beneath the dignity of satire.

Republicans who want their party to be more a part of this nation’s future than its past would do well to reject the absolution Cain offers them — and the self-denial that has plagued their relations with this nation’s black electorate.

African Americans know exactly why and what they’re voting for when it comes time to go into the ballot box. For HOUSE-NEGRO Herman Cain to say they have been brainwashed into picking the democratic candidates is brainless psycho-talk — Ed Shultz, MSNBC Host.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Herman Cain & Allen West on ‘Brainwashed, Plantation’ African Americans

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Here are a few reasons why African Americans choose to align with the Democrats and not Republicans:

1. Almost 17% of African Americans are unemployed. Democrats are in favor of extending unemployment benefits while Republicans say unemployment benefits just make people lazy [READ: THE BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE TAKING "OUR WHITES ONLY" COUNTRY AWAY].

2. Democrats are in favor of affirmative action while Republicans call it reverse discrimination.

3. Republicans are actively working against the best interests of many African Americans, and they’re not hiding their agenda a bit. For instance, Florida governor Rick Scott cut funding to historically black colleges in his state while Mississippi governor Haley Barbour refused to condemn a license plate honoring a KKK leader and Paula Page, governor of Maine, told the NAACP to, “kiss my butt.”

Additionally, the wave of voter laws sweeping up Republican controlled states — is aimed squarely at black and other minority voters. Voter suppression is a preferred tool — which Republicans have used successfully since paranoid, anti-black racist — President Richard Nixon “invented” the Southern Strategy.

4. The racist ramblings of the chief Republican party radio mouth piece, Rush Limbaugh and his underlings are legendary. The Republican party has decided that aligning themselves with the issues that affect black people is no longer in their best interest [ READ: SOUTHERN STRATEGY ]. They have decided to embrace the buffoonery and insipid hatred spread by men like Rush Limbaugh, instead of standing up and speaking out against his ignorance. They have taken up to supporting crazy conservative ideals like baring arms, supporting the military-industrial complex, expanding incarceration of blacks [ READ: THE NEW JIM CROW ] and harsh anti-immigration reform. [ READ MORE ] [ REPUBLICANS & THE ART OF RACISM ]

5. The Republican Party aided by its extreme right faction — the tea party, has mastered tactics previously employed by fascists: use of ‘tea party‘ street mobs, hysterics and lies to distract and confuse the public. In doing so, their weapon of choice is race-baiting and filthy anti Obama theatrics.

Political Science Professor Dorian Warren Examines Herman Cain’s ‘Brain-Wash‘ Claims

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Janeane Garofalo discusses the racism behind the GOP’s fondness for Herman Cain

PLAYLIST: Republican | Tea-Party Racism

References:

1. Featured Attraction: ‘Uncle-Tom’ Herman Cain Pleasures, Fulfills ‘Jumping Jim Crow’ Fantasies of White Racists at CPAC

2. Why Blacks don’t vote Republican

3. Why Minorities Don’t Vote Republican — Minorities are not going to listen to Republicans on taxes, terrorism, or immigration when they give them so many reasons to believe their traditions, cultures, and identities are not valued.

4. Blacks & The Republican Party — The question has always been wrong. The question IS NOT how come the blacks only vote for Democrats? The REAL QUESTION continues to be what CHANGED in the Republican Party to completely ALIENATE blacks from the party they SWORE allegiance to? When Republicans ask the first question it is ONLY a subterfuge for avoiding the second question.

5. Republicans and The Art of Racism

6. 41 Things You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today

7. Obama’s New Black Enemy — Conservative Mascot, Punk Ass, Uncle-Tom Herman Cain

Worst Persons (09/28/2011): REPUBLICANS Dick Morris, Sen. Rand Paul and CNN’s Dana Loesch

NOTES:

1. The Tea Party, Right-Wing Media, And The Dog That Didn’t Bark

MMFA: Fox Attacks Obama For Pushing Back Against Fox-Led “Class Warfare” Attack — It’s no surprise by now that Fox News has staked out its position as the “voice of the opposition” against President Obama’s policies. It’s also no surprise that Fox is the home of some of the most outrageous and false attacks — attacks that, like the false “death panel” smear, are repeated incessantly with no evidence to back them up. Recently, in opposition to Obama’s call to end the tax cuts on the wealthy as part of his debt plan, Fox has dredged up the all-too-familiar “class warfare” attack. [ READ MORE ]

Something We Can All Rally Behind: O’Reilly Says He May “Pack It In” If Obama Raises Taxes On Him Too Much

Limbaugh Applauds Fox’s Bill O’Reilly For “Fighting Back” And “Defending” The Rich

Fox’s Monica Crowley: Obama Is A “Committed Wealth Redistributionist” To The Benefit Of African Americans

Bob Beckel Calls Out Fox For Using Rap Video To Suggest All Food Stamp Recipients Are Black

Limbaugh Continues To Spread Lies About Health Care Reform: “You’re Not Going To Be Able To Keep” Your Doctor And Plan

Limbaugh: Obama’s Base Is “A Bunch Of Crazed Anti-American Lunatics“

————————————————————

MSNBC’s O’Donnell On O’Reilly’s Empty Threat To Quit Over Taxes

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Looking Out For ‘Me‘: Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Want Obama To Tax His Lying ‘Achievements’ at Fox

————————————————————————————————————————————————

———————————————————————————————————————————————–