Does Howard Dean Treat Black People Like Black People

Does Howard Dean Treat Black People Like Black People

While describing Howard Dean's humble upbringing in a multimillion dollar Manhattan apartment, Dr. Dean's mom declared "we didn't even treat the servants like servants."

Now we'll learn whether Dr. Dean will treat black people like black people. He certainly did in Vermont, where he excluded them from his government.

Jason Riley asks a question. Can an angry white man attract the votes of blacks.

"In Sunday's debate, Al Sharpton, who mau-maus whites for a living and never misses an opportunity to needle the front-runner on race, told Mr. Dean acerbically, "It seems as though you discovered blacks and browns during this campaign." Given Mr. Dean's very recent discovery of openly religious Americans, who knows? Maybe black America is another recent discovery and Mr. Sharpton is on to something. In any case, the Democratic Party has long known the importance of the black vote, which is one reason Republicans are much more excited than many Democrats about a Dean nomination."

"Democrats are increasingly dependent on the black electorate because they've been steadily losing favor with moderate blue-collar whites--especially white men. White flight from the party began to manifest itself in the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, but it was more acutely felt in Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis's spectacularly unsuccessful bids for president in 1984 and 1988."