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The author seems to forget the person who won is also black. So a black politician won. Hardly gloom and doom for black politicians...

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You, too, totally misread the piece. You're focussed on skin color, precisely the thing the author is excoriating.

It wasn't about trading one black for another. The issues in this race really mattered for a change.

How'd you miss that after reading it? Or did you read it thoroughly?

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The author seems to forget the person who won is also black. So a black politician won. Hardly gloom and doom for black politicians...

Take a look again - he's talking about traditional black politicians (i.e., liberal, Democratic black politicans). And this DOES spell a change in the black electorate - there are more conservative blacks emerging and asserting themselves overall.

And that fact does hurt the traditional black political power structure - badly.