“If he’s talking about 41 percent of black voters in the Republican primary he might be right,” Michael Dawson, a black political science professor at the University of Chicago, said with a chuckle. But in a general election against President Obama, who got 95 percent of the black vote in 2008 and remains popular among African Americans, Dawson said Cain “would be lucky to get 10 percent” of the black vote…

Raynard Jackson, a longtime Republican party activist and consultant who is black, was incredulous…

“I have never, ever seen him with a black person on the campaign other than that security guy,” Jackson said…

“Is he going to do the same thing that the party in general does? They will send a white guy into the black community and then wonder why their message doesn’t resonate,” Jackson said.