As Harold Ford Jr. preps for his upcoming marriage to Emily Threlkeld, he may want to also be thinking about how to appease some black voters in his home state of Tennesse — if, that is, he ultimately wants to be elected as governor there, as insiders have said.
In reaction to his proposal last month, several African-American voters have been asking in various Internet forums why he didn’t choose a black mate.
“Why is he doing this to his people?” one woman who claimed to have dated him in the past has asked Big Head DC. “I am hurt, and we should all be angry.”
Ford’s connection to his heritage has long been questioned. “If you take a big hypodermic needle, stuck it in a brothers arm, and sucked all the Hip Hop out of him, you would be left with Harold Ford Jr.,” one blogger wrote in April. “No flavor. No sista. No courage. Second class white boy. Post Civil Rights Negro.”
The politician has not responded to requests for comment to date, but some say he had hope to project a more “settled image” by getting married.
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