They are the faces and voices the media wants you to see and hear. Both are young, charismatic, intelligent and African American. More importantly, in the eyes of the mainstream press, they are Democrats.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama and Tennessee Senate candidate, Congressman Harold Ford, are the featured stories and interviews in magazines, newspapers and on talk shows. There are other prominent African Americans running for high profile offices, but they are viewed with great disdain because they run under the banner of the GOP.
Over the past forty years something in the American body politick changed and African Americans left the party of Abraham Lincoln and joined the party of Lyndon Johnson.
{snip} Today African Americans who support the GOP are perceived as Uncle Toms or Token candidates. Self-proclaimed civil rights leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton support and politicize this view.
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