Good for you! Whose MCWAY to try and judge who had it rougher. He's a typical christian extremist.
Doesn't the bible say something about judging people, and bearing false witness?
Try that again!! Vince is making all these excuses about people being dealt a bad hand in life, not being able to make it. What I said was that I doubt you'll find any black man, born in the last 20-30 years, who's had it worse than Cain did back in the days of the segregated South.
Dirt poor, black, with hardcore in-your-face racism being part of his life. Yet, Cain is a mega-success.
Vince is trying to convince himself (and others here) that Cain has a relatively cushy life, which is why he succeeded, while he had it so hard. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
He had a mom and dad....... I just had a mom and no dad.
His parents had decent jobs....my mom worked for minimum wage frying chicken at Bojangles
He grew up in the Segregated South...... I grew up in the STILL Segregated South and the height of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic
He experienced lots of racism....I experienced lots of racism, got shot at and had to avoid drug dealers and gang violence.
He lived in a decent house....... I lived in a roach and rat infested ghetto.
His parents helped pay his way into Morehouse College.....I had to unload trucks at Fed-EX overnight to pay for school
Personally, I would have killed to have had Herman Cain's childhood. He had parents, grew up in a middle class home, never had to face gangs and drug dealers and never had any "real struggles". So he had to drink out of a separate water fountain...big fucking deal. There isn't any water fountains in the ghetto..much less clean water. Herman Cain wasn't born into wealth but he certainly wasn't born into poverty.
You're younger than I am, born in the late 70s. When did you drink out of "colored" water fountains? When were you forced to sit in the back of a bus or give up your seat to a white guy?
When did you have to go to the back of a restaurant to get food?
Cain's family, middle-class? PLEASE!!!
I've lived in the 'hood, raised by a single mom. My mother worked at fast-food places, as well, often as a second job (especially when my stepdad went to jail).
She ended up driving a semi-tractor trailor to put me through private school. She lost that job, my senior year of high school.
She was afraid she wouldn't be able to send me to college after that. But, I ended up getting a full-ride to FAMU.
Even with all that, I had it better growing up than Cain did, in terms of opportunities.
