November 12, 2006

Kweisi Mfume: "right people" needed for Maryland

It wasn't too many decades ago when "the right kind of people" was a racist code word. Guess what? It still is. In Maryland, Democrat Rep. Ben Cardin (white) won his Senate seat against Michael Steele (black). In the primary, Cardin beat former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume.

Now:

Saying Maryland Democratic leaders must do more to encourage black candidates so "we do not have another Michael Steele problem," Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on Thursday criticized the state party's lack of diversity on its recent winning tickets...

Mfume doesn't think he got as much support as he could have, and says:

"I agree with [Chairman Gov. Dr. Howard Dean M.D.], and we're all Democrats who believe more than anything else that the Democratic Party really holds the best hope for that kind of racial and gender diversity... At the same time it's not enough to just get people in the process. They really do have to be the right people who really do care about the communities in this state."

Translating that into Alabama-in-the-50s-speak is left as an exercise.

Posted to MultiCultiCult at November 12, 2006 05:09 AM

Comments

I must point out that the first black Governor in the US was elected in conservative Virginia. Doug Wilder was elected Governor in 1989.

Posted by: D Flinchum at November 13, 2006 07:01 AM