Stick a fork in the Maryland senate race:

You can stick a fork in the Maryland senate race:

“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.”

Steele, who as lieutenant governor is the first African American elected statewide in Maryland, said he was humbled by the support. “I said I did not want this [campaign] to be so much about party but about the people,” he said. “And these people understand that.”

Ron Walters, a political science professor at the University of Maryland, said the endorsements could be significant. “This is going to go through the black community like a rocket,” he said. “It’s going to be the talk of the county, the state, maybe even the nation.”

Oren Shur, a spokesman for the Democratic Senate candidate, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, was more skeptical. “The endorsements will not make Prince George’s County residents forget that Michael Steele is George W. Bush’s handpicked candidate,” he said.

The politicians were joined at a news conference in Largo by about a half-dozen business leaders, including Ron Lipscomb, a trustee of the state Democratic Party.

All said they are lifelong Democrats who do not agree with some of Steele’s stances but are not in lock step with the Democratic Party, either.

“The party acts as though when they want our opinion they’ll give it to us,” said Curry, Prince George’s first black county executive. “It will not be like that anymore.”

This “awakening” has been going on for a while now as slowly, but surely black voters realize that Democrats do not, nor have they ever had their best interest at heart. Look for more of this type of support to gain momentum leading up to the 2008 election.

Looks like the black community is beginning to wise up.

It’s not republicans that continually throw up “blackface” pictures of candidates, nort republicans who throw up the “Uncle Tom” label at a wink.

Check the history, the left owns that distinction outright.

History has shown that when it comes to racism democrats own that title as their history has shown and is without dispute.

Perhaps now blacks will realize which party truly stands for equality.