Prometheus 6

Steele and Mfume are black. If each prevails, it will be the first time voters in both parties have nominated black candidates for the Senate.

What is remarkable is how little remarked upon this is.

Come to think of it, there are several exceptions that leap to mind, left and right. But since I got some Steele stuff coming up later today, what the heck...

"Without question it would be the most powerful era of African-American leadership on the Hill, and with the growing influence of Sen. Obama, there would be the possibility of a golden era of African-American politics in D.C.," said Peter Groff, the Colorado Senate's first black president pro-tem and executive director of the Center for African American Policy at the University of Denver. "Add a Ford or Steele or Mfume to that mix and it would really be something."

Visibility is confused with influence as often as movement is confused with progress. That's all.