(ThyBlackMan.com) While others were being so sure that they were in line to be President of the USA, Herman Cain prayed for guidance.
How do I know this?
In 2010’s North Carolina’s Hall of Fame Banquet Fund Raiser, I was asked to introduce Mr. Cain from a prepared resume which after taking one glance at it, I set it aside and did it from my heart.
I appreciated that there were not six degrees of separation between us but paths of convergence including deep Georgia roots his and mine on the 
paternal side, an undergraduate Morehouse connection for him and my father involving Dr. Benjamin Elias Mays, a utilization of a hearse to deliver Godfather’s Pizzas and by my brother’s funeral parlor, as well as a Purdue University appreciation from one of my ex-loves and my nephew who is currently there.
For thirty minutes reaching deep into the depths of his experiences, without notes, Herman Cain’s baritone voice rendered a stirring and impassioned charge to the Republican Party building upon his humble beginnings as a poor boy whose father taught him well the need to be responsible for his own life and outcome even if it meant assuming three jobs as he had done.
He talked philosophically about the lessons of Benjamin Mays who told him and the other black young men the value of a minute to their lives and the imperative that such not be wasted. Herman Cain shared his plight in having been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which had spread to his liver, now being cancer free for 5 years. Then he closed noting he was prayerfully in discussions to determine whether this desire he had to become President of the USA was being divinely guided.
So here he stands leading in the polls on the Republican ticket and the party rank and file are as flabbergasted and often rattled, as are the Democratic black apologist, by his rise and on point messages. It is evident that Cain’s appeal is beyond that of the Tea Party based on the very things he notes.
Herman Cain is not a politician; for no politician would have touched Piers Morgan’s question on abortion in so honest a manner nor referenced their biblical imperatives in defining homosexuality as a sin while noting we should not fail to show compassion for the sinner but not the sin.
The one unique thing Herman Cain brings to the table, which no other candidate or president has had, is experience directly on the Federal Reserve which in some ways is at the heart of the national and international economic mess. His line that he is a business man from Main Street, where folks likely eat a lot of pizza, not a captive of Wall Street should have appeal to those presently occupying those environs in protests. Unfortunately if not the nominee, this will haunt whoever is chosen.
Though maybe a bit naïve in stating that color is not important in this race, Cain’s credibility with blacks cuts to the chase on some pernicious brain washing that affects us as a people, inflicted by those with secondary gains who would chain us to entitlements and not better show us, as does his example, how to unleash our bonds through education, creativity and persistence.
Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley and Cornell West’s attacks on Mr. Cain are debasing to different views which exist within the black community. These narrow minds seem to express the long engrained notation of too many that we must march in lock step for there is only room for democrats and one black person to rise at a time, as if they are our own overseers.
Harry Belafonte forgets his song, “Day O”, for the day is over when black conservatives will sit silently bludgeoned into conformity by belief systems which devalue the family, promote ignorance and excuse criminal behavior.
If speaking against these things belittles us in the eyes of some, we will not take these personal assaults without fighting back.
Herman Cain is very threatening to the old guard and the old way of thinking for he isn’t to be an example of a Republican response to the Obama black phenomena. Herman Cain has hit on what angers many Americans most, the IRS which is complex and unfair. In tackling the right problem he simplifies with 9-9-9 to get the conversation started.
As a graduate of a Historically Black College, Herman Cain knows all too well that preferences given to those illegally in the nation push back to the back of the line, those legitimately here and those who have waited their turn.
As a millionaire businessman with credentials better than the present occupant had when he entered the White House, Herman Cain can’t be “Palin’d” to death without the media and blacks showing their true colors. Is raising Herman Cain to be feared?
Who we vote for should be determined by who is best on the issues for the nation? Herman Cain has risen, now can he sustain his rise and then what? How’s that hope and change working for you?
Written By Dr. Ada M. Fisher
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