Democratic race rally

The Baltimore Sun quotes former Rep. and former President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Kweisi Mfume telling a Democratic rally at the University of Maryland in College Park:

"When the Democratic ticket for statewide offices in 2006 still looks like the one from 1956, we have a problem. We need women in leadership positions in the state. We've got to find a way that African-Americans and other minorities are represented statewide in office."

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This utterly racist statement begs the question: Has the NAACP in its 97-year history ever had a president who was not black and male?

And how many "other minorities," as Mfume mentioned, have been allowed to have full membership in the racially segregated Congressional Black Caucus, which was also once headed by Mr. Mfume?

This racist organization denied the application for membership filed by California Democrat Rep. Fortney Stark, a veteran of civil rights campaigning in Mississippi, because Stark is white – and even though his Oakland district had more blacks than the Berkeley district of then-Rep. Ron Dellums.

Despite all of this racial segregation by blacks of the NAACP and CBC, Mfume told that University of Maryland Democrat rally:

"We expect that the party will say, 'Well, you know, we didn't plan it this way, it ended this way, and we promise you, it will never be this way again.'"

In other words, the ideal expressed on Aug. 20, 1963, should "never happen again" according to Mfume.

What was that ideal?

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

To his everlasting discredit, when U.S. Senate nominee Ben Cardin was asked about Mfume's statements, Cardin replied that Mfume was "absolutely correct," reported the Sun.

"Webster's New World Dictionary" defines racism as: "The same as racialism – a doctrine or teaching without scientific support that claims to find racial differences in character, intelligence, etc. that asserts the superiority of one race over the other, or others and that seeks to maintain the supposed purity of a race or the races."

Consider Mfume's statement about the Maryland Democratic ticket for statewide office and what it "still looks like" – that is, what the color of its skin is. And compare this to Dr. King's unforgettable hope about his children not being judged "by the color of their skin."

That nobody on that platform of Maryland Democratic leaders dared to disagree (out loud) with Mfume's racism should surely be remembered on Election Day, Nov. 7.

And for whatever reason Baltimore's mayor and Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Martin O'Malley, may come up with to explain his absence from this race rally in College Park, he was fortunate indeed to have been elsewhere.

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