NY Times: Black Democrats Left Behind?

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Black Democrats Left Behind?

Baraka Cheeseboro noticed something going on behind the poinsettias. While prayers were raised and the choir sang on a recent morning at the Community C.M.E. Church in Columbia, S.C., Howard Dean was chattering away on the altar with Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. Labrena Aiken noticed it, too. ''Baraka,'' she leaned in to whisper, ''those flowers need to be moved. We want to see his face.'' The service was well under way, but a sign from Cheeseboro to an usher, a quick word with the pastor, and the flowers came down. Dean, now in plain sight, assumed a respectful mien. A bit later the two women were joined in the pew by a third, and the young pastor, the Rev. Joiquim Barnes, acknowledged for his audience the arrival of Gilda Cobb-Hunter.

''You do know what they call those three -- Gilda, Labrena, Baraka,'' a friend long involved in South Carolina politics said afterward. ''They call them the Marvelettes.'' If you want something to happen politically, especially in their home base of Orangeburg County in the heart of the state's Black Belt, you need to know them.

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