A trivia question no liberal could ever answer correctly.

Would ruin the point if I said the source ^ | 5-27-10

[dangus]

Think you're smart enough NOT to fall into the trap of thinking like a liberal racialist? Try this on for size: Name the first African-American senator. He's not who you think. He's not even who you think when I tell you he's not who you think. Answer will be posted in the morning, if no-one gets it by then.

[kbennkc]

Who was the first Jewish Senator ?

[Grizzled Bear]

Self Ping for tomorrow!

[RobRoy]

I’m going to remember that name. It blows the lid off what people think is “african american” and if they mean “black” or “negro”, then they should say “black” or “negro”.

[RobRoy]

David Levy Yulee?

[Eagles6]

St. Augustine

Obama

[dangus]

Mind if I ask how you knew?

[dangus]

Never mind. Read posts 30 and 31.

[RobRoy]

Both african american and Jewish!. Must have been a distant relative of Sammy Davis Jr.

[higgmeister]

Who was the first black senator to be elected by popular vote?

That is more than likely another Republican, Edward Brooke of Mass.

[PA Engineer]

He was also the first Jewish Senator.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Tertullian, Augustine, Athanasius, and Origen were all ancient Christian saints born in Africa. In the Bible, the Ethiopian eunuch was an African Christian, (and therefore a saint.) Perhaps Simon of Cyrene, also, but there is no Biblical account of his conversion.

[dangus]

Favorite Sammy Davis, Jr. line, on being asked if he’s gay:

“I’m a short, one-eyed, black Jew. Do I have to be gay?”

[Eagles6]

Same guy, Yulee.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Theresa Heinz-Kerry IS African American, (though not black), but she is not a senator. Her husband is proof that an idiot can be senator.

[kbennkc]

Both african american and Jewish!.

Great quiz dangus .

[dangus]

Yup. Excepting the eunuch, I figured if people started thinking about Church Fathers, they’d lose the equation that African = black.

[smokingfrog]

A democrat and a slave owner too.

[dangus]

If Thomas Jefferson (not a senator) believed in Moses, the parting of the Red Sea, the Decalogue, circumcision and YHWH, but did not believe in the divine nature of Christ, could we say *he* was Jewish?

[Charles Henrickson]

Mind if I ask how you knew?

It was obvious you were looking for a non-black senator before Revels. That narrowed it down to start. Then a little googling along the lines of

+senator +"born in africa" +1800s

moved me along the path.

[dangus]

Wait, you’re telling me that David Levy Yulee was Jewish?