Quote Unquote: The Ignorance Market Plummets

Atlantic editor Ta-Nehisi Coates on Herman Cain's decision to leave the GOP race…

"I'm glad that's over… His racialist attacks on Obama were bad. But watching a guy bill himself as a 'real black man' repeatedly market[ing] ignorance is just too much for me. Racial essentialism is bad. It's worse when it's paired with stupidity."

It can't have been all bad, though, can it? I mean, there must have been one redeeming moment in there somewhere.

Like, how about that time he dropped out? That was kind of smart, don't you think?

Tags: Herman Cain, Primaries, Quote Unquote, Racism, Republicans, The Atlantic