Herman Cain won't play the Race Card, but is running as "a real black man..run(ning) against Barack Obama."

It was an entertaining week watching Al Sharpton filling in for Ed Schultz a few times. He had some meaty stuff to work with, like the boisterous, and black, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

One of the more interesting topics that lit up Sharpton; racial comments from Cain, who in one breath insists he's not playing the race card and then does over and over....This is actually fun to watch, as is part 2 below, which is a follow-up the next night. Sharpton gets straight to the point:



The next night, late breaking comments from Cain not only energized Sharpton, but Georgetown Prof. Michael Eric Dyson. According to Cain, who isn't about to play the race card:

"(The media is) scared that a real black man might run against Barack Obama...a real black man is not timid about making the right decisions."

Not those difficult decisions, but the "right" decisions, because conservative authoritarians are never wrong.