Miriam Dictionary: UNCTUOUS b : smooth and greasy in texture or appearance 2: plastic 3: full of unction; especially : revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality

by Clifford F. Thies

This vile headline and its associated article is currently running at Time magazine dot com. The idea that people who have a certain pigmentation are supposed to be multicultural socialists is racist. Everybody in this country is free to be who he or she chooses to be, provided they can cut the mustard, whether that is to be a computer scientist, a Catholic, a coin collector, a conservative, or anything else they choose.

As to the question is Herman Cain unctuous, that is, phony, is it phony for a person to turn around a major division of a large corporation, and then lead a management buyout of that division and as CEO make it a profitable independent corporation? Did people buy the product of this company because they felt like it needed a little "affirmative action" because of the legacy of racism in this country? Or, is something else going on here? Namely, envy of a person who made it on his own, against the odds, given that when he was a young man people of a certain pigmentation were denied opportunity instead of given affirmative action?

Is what's going on the fact that Herman Cain gained the respect of his fellow restaurant owners, who elected him to represent their industry in Washington, when certain people desperately want to hold on to the notion of racism so as to justify their own mediocre level of success?

Who really is being smug? Those who proclaim Barack Obama the smartest man ever to be president when the truth is we do not have his SAT score, or his LSAT score, or any objective measure of intelligence, but we're just suppose to believe it because, well, because he is black?

Get over it, people. Being elected President is a singularly great accomplishment no matter a person's color. So is being a success in the corporate world. As to whether Obama or Cain or any other successful person who shares their pigmentation should be considered to be a phony, as though there must be something phony about a black person being successful, that is racist.

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