{"id":22279,"date":"2011-02-15T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22279"},"modified":"2011-02-15T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:45:18","slug":"um-what-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22279","title":{"rendered":"Um&#8230;.what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you just love it when <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/author\/chaunceydevega\/\">people this smart explain <\/a>it to us in such a phenomenal fashion?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead, Herman Cain\u2019s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs \u201cauthentic negritude\u201d as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. Like the fountain at Lourdes, Cain in his designated role as black Conservative mascot, absolves the White racial reactionaries at CPAC of their sins. This is a refined performance that Black Conservatives have perfected over many decades and centuries of practice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In total, CPAC is a carnival and a roadshow for reactionary Conservatives. It is only fitting that in the great tradition of the freak show, the human zoo, the boardwalk, and the great midway world\u2019s fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries, that there is a Borneo man, a Venus Hottentot or a tribe of cannibals from deepest darkest Africa or Papua New Guinea on display. For CPAC and the White Conservative imagination, Herman Cain and his black and brown kin are that featured attraction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You had me at &#8220;authentic negritude.&#8221;  I wish I knew how to quit you Chauncey DeVega.  It must be so burdensome being all overcome with such brilliantude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you just love it when people this smart explain it to us in such a &hellip; <a title=\"Um&#8230;.what?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22279\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Um&#8230;.what?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}