it's time now to clear the air. and there's been some heated reaction to our broadcast on friday after one of our most insightful contributors, the writer and broadcaster goldie taylor, made the following remarks about herman cain, the republican front-runner. >> if he could shed his ethnicity today, if he could become what i would call the color of water, he would do it. >> goldie taylor was responding to herman cain's repeated attempts to claim that racism no longer exists in america, that his ethnic origins have no bearing on anything, and that he's happy to be known as black walnut flavor ice cream because it tastes good all of the time. but goldie's analysis was met with a flurry of tweets and comments. one website posted our segment with these introductory words -- "a day wouldn't be complete without the left-wing member of the african-american community attacking herman cain's blackness." another website responded in