Impressed?! Wait 'til you hear the facts . . .

This article, entitled "Major black candidates at record high" is intriguing because it glosses over the fact that this "record" year is far and away a Republican phenomenon. The article states,

From Maryland to Tennessee to Ohio, the 2006 elections already hold a place in the history books: More black candidates from both major parties are mounting serious campaigns for upper-tier office - senator or governor - than ever before.
Even more noteworthy, three of the six men are Republican, a party that has struggled to boost its black affiliation above 10 percent.

And even MORE NOTEWORTHY is that two of the Democrats included in this story are likely to lose their respective primary . . . the Republicans being counted are all the GOP nominee (notice how the reporter even insinuates that the GOP worked to defeat a black nominee in Michigan by recruiting a white candidate to run against him).

In sum, after the primaries, this story would be much more difficult to write without undermining the "Republicans are racist" myth which must be perpetuated to keep the Democrat Party electorally competitive.

Here's an earlier post to similar articles on this subject.