Thomas Sowell has written extensively on the harm done to individual black students by ‘over-promoting’ them into a college that is more competitive than their own current level of competence. Likewise, to push our best black politicians to the presidential level before they have fully accumulated the experience they would otherwise need is doing them and us a disfavor.
I’m thrilled that we have such an impressive array of black candidates running this year, and I want to see them prosper politically for years to come.
That’s my point. It’s not like there are only black candidates that one might argue we’re supporting just because they’re black (i.e., an AA pick). West, Cain, even Angela McGlowan in MS I’d support even if they were as lily white as my skinny butt!