Suddenly he appeared in front of me. Tall, lean, skin the color of a Hershey candy bar framed by a salt and pepper well groomed mustache and beard. He wore an expensive khaki colored trench coat over a wool charcoal grey suit. In a sentence, to use my preschooler’s words to describe Congressman Kweisi Mfume when she saw him on our TV screen for the first time, he was “sharp as a pencil.”