Race Fails to Play in Elections, Yet Issue Persists

By JOE PALAZZOLO
Capital News Service
Friday, November 10, 2006

WASHINGTON – The Rev. Heber Brown III was not among the 76 percent in Baltimore who backed the O’Malley/Brown ticket or the 75 percent who voted for Ben Cardin.

Brown, 26, the coordinator of Baltimore’s Young Clergy for Social Change, was exactly what the Democrats feared — an African-American who, rather than settle for “the lesser of two evils, a strategy that has not proved to benefit the masses of my people” chose neither major party.

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