“I don’t think that was the case, since voters had no freaking clue that Alvin Greene was black.”
Why does everyone treat black folk like they’re stupid and know nothing?
The black Democrat voters no doubt knew all about Al because they voted for him!
Just because the majority of the press in that state knew nothing about him doesn’t mean the black population’s political grapevine wasn’t working overtime.
The same forces working within the Tea Party to effect changes in the Republican Party are no doubt, from this example, also in existence for independently-thinking black Democrat voters tired of being taken for granted by the party’s progressives.
Why be so surprised? It’s only logical.
Had Greene done particularly well in black-majority areas and particularly poorly in white-majority areas you would perhaps have a point. But he didn’t (heavily black Charleston County and Richland County were two of only five or so counties not to have voted for Greene).
No one is saying that black voters are ignorant; it’s just that no one, black or white, knew who the hell Alvin Greene was.