JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum isn’t afraid to tell you he is a proud black man. The political implications of being “too black,” long a concern for black candidates running for statewide or higher office throughout U.S. history, don’t scare him. He embraces his blackness because he believes in himself and knows black candidates before him have blazed a trail that makes his approach viable in 2018.
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Gillum has already made history by becoming the first African American to win the Democratic nominee for governor in Florida. If he wins next week on Tuesday, he will become one of the handful of black people ever elected governor of a U.S. state.
Source: Andrew Gillum Is Winning by Being His Natural, Black Self
