Category: "Politics"
The Worst Time in the World to be a Black Republican Candidate
The Associated Press' Kristen Wyatt says some candidates must run against not only an unpopular president and war at next Tuesday’s ballot box, but also prejudice.
Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, and Maryland senatorial candidate Michael Steele—all black Republican hopefuls—trail Democratic opponents in recent polls.
Wyatt quotes North Central College political scientist Stephen Maynard Caliendo:
“The way racism works now, it’s not out in the open. We have this deep-seated predisposition. It’s not really a Republican thing; it's just that white folks are predisposed to think that black folks don’t have what it takes to make a good leader. Now, that’s subconscious. Nobody will say that.”
