A topic Dinkins won't touch

Former Mayor David Dinkins, a scion in New York black politics, was down by City Hall earlier today, where reporters pelted him with a number of questions about the New York governor's race, including this one:

Has Andrew Cuomo done enough for the black community?

“I’m not going to address that ‘cause I don’t want to debate you or them or anyone else," Dinkins told reporters.

Cuomo, the Democratic candidate and odds-on-favorite to win the election, is leading the state Democratic Party whose slate of statewide candidates is, surprisingly, not that racially diverse. (They're all white and with one exception, all men).

Cuomo has been criticized for having once run against the party's leading gubernatorial candidate eight years ago, Carl McCall, who is African American (Cuomo dropped out, McCall won the primary, and now, McCall supports Cuomo). Cuomo was also roiling some in the African American community when it looked like he would be heading for a primary fight against sitting Governor David Paterson - who is the state's first African American governor. (Paterson dropped out and is now supporting Cuomo).