When Virginia Republicans convened in Roanoke last week and picked black Businessman Maurice Dawkins to run for the U.S. Senate, they handed him the dubious opportunity of serving as a sacrificial lamb in a contest against the state's most popular and best-financed Democrat: ex-Governor Charles S. Robb. A Chicago native and onetime preacher with a rousing hellfire brand of oratory, Dawkins, 67, captured the nomination by getting more votes than two white candidates combined. Declaring that he would run a "conservative" but not a "black" campaign, Dawkins, a former Democrat who left the party in 1972, declined to accept the widespread...
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