Thoughts On The Low Mentality of New Yorkers and Academics

What the hell is racial about cornbread? In her New York Daily News article, "Herman Cain's use of racial language is rhetoric we must refuse" Ulli K. Ryder takes umbrage at Cain's use of words and phrases such as "shucky-ducky " and cornbread. This does not reflect a surd insight into some subliminal racial pandering message as Ryder imagines rather it reflects a New York provincialism and an almost vulgar ignorance of the country the authors seeks to save. Wake up Ms. Ryder, there is a section of the country from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico to about Interstate 70 where people of all races revere cornbread especially when served with white beans and tabasco sauce. White bread, rye bread, and whole wheat bread can be purchased at the local grocery store. Cornbread, at least any that is fit to eat, is homemade. It speaks of a mother's or wife's devotion to children or spouse by taking a few minutes to place something on the dinner table that she knows will be well received and appreciated. I'm sure Herman Cain grew up eating cornbread as, did his white neighbors, and if he reflects fondly on that memory it is not racial rhetoric that we must refuse. The rhetoric we should refuse is the arrogant and condescending drivel of moral superiority coming from a city that cannot maintain a semblance of civil order as evidenced by the month long Occupy Wall Street disgrace by way of southern California.

Ms. Ryder hails from the University of Southern California, which is almost as bad as New York City as far as horse sense is concerned, so it natural that the Daily News would consider her opinion, however uninformed, as serious political inquiry. She after all earned her Ph.D. in American Studies & Ethnicity from the University of Southern California and a Master of Professional Writing and a Master of Afro-American Studies from UCLA. Herman Cain, on the other hand studied mathematics at Purdue and actually lived in the area and era Ryder seems to know so little of.