Herman Cain Suits Conservatives To A Tea Party

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By: Tonyaa Weathersbee

It’s not surprising that the Tea Party people would embrace a black man like Herman Cain.

The 65-year-old contender for the Republican presidential nomination reminds one of a younger, shaven version of Uncle Remus; the kind of black man whose success story serves as the comforting, de-contextualized tale they need to egg them on in their anti-government, anti-Obama fervor.

Cain is a man whose father, who, according to The Washington Post, worked as a chauffeur for the former head of Coca-Cola and used the stocks that his boss tipped him with to send his son to Morehouse College. Morehouse, as most of us know, is a historically-black college that was created during the segregated times that some Tea Party favorites, such as U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, would like to return to. CONTINUE....

Over Six Months After Gaining Freedom, Genarlow Wilson Enjoying His Life at Morehouse

By: Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com

It has taken some getting used to, but Genarlow Wilson says college life is treating him just fine.

Wilson, who was freed from a Georgia prison last October, began classes as a part-time student at the 140-year-old predominantly male liberal arts Morehouse College in Atlanta. The 10-year-old Tom Joyner Foundation is paying for Wilson’s education, including tuition, books and campus room and board.

In 2005, Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a 2003 New Year's Eve party. Wilson, a star athlete and honors student, was 17 at the time. He was sentenced to serve a mandatory 10-year sentence with a sex offender designation. After a nationwide effort to fight for his release, Wilson was set free last October after spending two years in prison on the teen sex conviction. The case received international media attention and garnered support from civil rights leaders, celebrities, business leaders and politicians, including former President Jimmy Carter and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

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