I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters. . . Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.