Just face it. Herman Cain’s buffoonery makes Morehouse College look bad. You can be proud that Mr. Cain succeeded in his corporate career. Conventional success is a big part of Morehouse’s mission. Fortune 500 companies swoop down on campus every year and recruit ‘C’ students like Mr. Cain. And ‘B’ and ‘A’ students, too. It speaks well of the school that they are successful in training young black men to excel in business.
But it doesn’t make the school look good when Cain doesn’t appear to know anything about anything. Producing a male Sarah Palin isn’t something to be proud of, as this student understands:
At Thursday’s student-sponsored political forum, freshman Daniel West, 18, said that some students were ashamed by Cain’s candidacy, which, according to one’s perspective, has been either unorthodox or weird, and marred as well by accusations that he sexually harassed women while heading the restaurant association.
West said he was initially dismayed by Cain when he watched him in a debate pitching his 9-9-9 plan in a manner that reminded West of an infomercial hawker.
“I was like, ‘You’re the only black person in a room full of white people, and that’s the way you act? Come on!’ ” he said.
But West said he was willing to do more research and not rule out the candidate.
After all, he said, Herman Cain is a Morehouse man.
It’s safe to say that, in the future, the school will brag about different graduates, like Martin Luther King Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and Spike Lee. They’ll probably try to forget all about Herman Cain.
