Cain “Makes the Hair on my Neck Stand Up” ....

The problem with Ryder is, she’s never heard Cain talk to people before. Herman Cain’s speech patterns are a mixture of articulate elocution and down-homespun plainspeak. Ryder has obviously been out to lunch because she thinks this is an act Cain is performing and not his own particular style of communicating. She sees his skin color, hears his words to a conservative audience, and using her own perspective immediately assumes the worst. If Cain is talking to conservatives, they must be white, rich, privileged, and therefore racist. Her immediate bias toward conservatives is the essence of racism. She presumes a set of negative facts based on nothing more than skin color. That’s racism.