Simply because black people are elected to positions in public office doesn’t mean that the black tax has gone away. They still have to be twice as good and even more-free of corruption. Of course people are going to go after black public officials-they are a huge target. If you know that, then as a black elected official, keep your nose clean and do what the public office position demands of you.

Here in Tennessee, the FBI went after Harold Ford Sr. and another black state congressman. They got them for bribery charges and made sure to blast their names and faces from Memphis to Knoxville (from the east to the west of the state). The media made sure to put the surveillance of both sting operations on t.v. And when his son, Harold Ford Jr. ran for U.S. senator, white folk refused to vote for him because of his father.

Why so much ado about them and not other equally corrupt and non-black politicians? My theory is because they were black and from Memphis (predominantly black city). Just another way to show people that “some black folks can’t be trusted.” But, that is just a theory from a black woman living in the South. I Wonder if that theory could be applicable to the black politicians in D.C.