Dear Mr. Steele,
This note is long overdue. I write to thank you for single handedly disproving the myth that black people, in herd like fashion, will always vote for the black guy because he’s black. The fact that you lost your bid for an open Maryland Senate seat in November 2006 does more to refute bone headed and simplistic analysis of black voter behavior than a thousand posts from this blog, and many others, ever could.
Afterall, even in a Senate race where your perhaps ill-advised candidacy created excitement and genuine …