Brother to Brother: A Letter to Herman Cain

by Max S. Gordon

(This essay originally appeared at The New Civil Rights Movement, April 29, 2011 and was re-edited for Medium.)

Dear Herman Cain,

I’m writing this letter to you because you need to be told off, and I’m the one to do it. You see, this letter has to come from a black gay man; if a white gay man writes you, you…