Sarah Jaffeprofiles Anton Gunn:
Anton Gunn’s e-mail promises I won’t have a hard time picking him out in the Starbucks in Richland County, South Carolina.
He’s right.
Easily the biggest guy in the room, the former offensive lineman looms over an older man in an American Legion baseball cap with whom he’s chatting about local business. We’re just northeast of Columbia, South Carolina’s capital, in the heart of Gunn’s state House district.
Gunn is used to standing out. An African American representative in a majority-white district, a Democrat in a Republican-dominated state, and a 36-year-old surrounded by career politicians, he makes a fitting messenger for Obama‘s campaign-trail message about the need for a new kind of politics that moves beyond traditional divisions.
