I Was Pulling for the White Guy

Larry Elder and Gavin Newsom

You want to know the main reason for my vote for Barack Obama, apart from the fact that he was young, charismatic, brilliant, and educated? Well, he was a black man and a democrat, one of many millions of other black democrats, but still one of a kind, an apogee of black excellence, unimpeachably great.

“But do you think white people are ready for him,” said Keith, a bespectacled black man who was also my…