Black Candidates are Being Elected by White Southerners
February 21st, 2008 Posted in ObamaI often argue to friends who say that a black man can’t be president in America that American race relations are more complicated than the usual stereotypes make them out to be. In Alabama no less:
Yet there are parallels. The very quality that voters here highlight, in so many words, as one of Mr. Fields’s more attractive attributes — that they are at ease with him — is one of Mr. Obama’s most important selling points. The implications are not lost on State Senator Zeb Little, the majority leader in the Alabama Senate and a Democratic power broker in Cullman: black politicians can win in unlikely districts, transcending history and partisan politics, if voters can see them as one of their own.
