Post Racial Politics

By Kleinheider Posted on July 25, 2008 at 7:13 am

Shelby County Mayor thinks we are at the cusp of a new age:

”With Barack Obama, we have entered upon a post-racial world and a post-racial politics,” Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton said Wednesday, expressly agreeing with a conclusion of that kind offered by 9th District U.S. Representative Steve Cohen during the congressman’s recent televised debate with Democratic primary opponents Nikki Tinker and Joe Towns.

Wharton agreed with Cohen that his own two mayoral victories, Obama’s success in this year’s Democratic presidential-primary race, and Cohen’s congressional win in 2006 were all of a piece – each an instance of cross-racial voting. “He’s entitled to say that,” ventured the mayor, who said he took pride in such an analysis as applied to his own success.

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Tags: A.C. Wharton, Barack Obama, Joe Towns, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen

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