"New" African-American Leadership
by Tom Grayman, Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 11:59:25 AM EDT
Tom Grayman is a pollster, the publisher of the political website The Intelligence Squad, and is author of the book Ghosts of Florida: Making Elections Fair for Blacks.
It seems that every couple of years there are a spate of articles in the world of political journalism -- particularly mainstream political journalism -- declaring a wave of "new" black leaders, or a "next generation" of black leaders.
These stories typically go on to profile a collection of recently-elected or aspiring would-be elected officials who are either Republicans or relatively centrist Democrats -- hence the "new"-ness.
Current icons of the moment include Barack Obama and Harold Ford (both of whom I'll get to in later posts), state-wide candidates like Michael Steele and Lynn Swann, and Newark mayoral candidate Corey Booker.
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