More: Maryland's Black Democrats Turn to Michael Steele, Part II

As Luther pointed out earlier, citing the Washington Times, there's further evidence that the Democrats have condescended to black voters one-too-many times, check this out from today's Washington Post; which, of course, carefully placed this in the B-Section, showing their own bias on this arguably national issue:

A coalition of black Democratic political leaders from Prince George's County led by former county executive Wayne K. Curry endorsed Republican Michael S. Steele's bid for the U.S. Senate yesterday.

The support from Curry, five County Council members and others barely a week before Election Day reflects their continued disappointment that the Democratic Party has no African American candidates at the top of the ticket and a sense that the county is being ignored, officials said.

"They show us a pie, but we never get a slice," said Major F. Riddick Jr., a former aide to then-Gov. Parris N. Glendening and a former county executive candidate. "We are here today to say we've waited and we've waited and we're waiting no longer."

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Yep. This could be the shot heard 'round the world, or at least the U.S. Wonker personally has been amazed that black voters have waited so long to proclaim the obvious. White Democrats have treated black voters like sharecroppers, worthy of courting once every couple of years, but not important enough to carry the Democratic torch in a statewide or national election. (And let's not forget, it was the Republicans who supported Civil Rights legislation in the 1950s, even as the Democrats, under Lyndon Johnson, made sure it would never pass.)

This story grows more interesting by the hour.