Yes, I knew that Ellison was a Black Muslim and an anti-white, anti-semitic bigot, but the announcement of him leading the prosecution against the accused police officers aroused no comments about his background in the MSM.
You wonder how a guy with his radical past can be elected statewide in a state like Minnesota, whose population is only 6% African-American and for as long as I can remember, was never in the spotlight as a center for any kind of extremism, Yes, it produced Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, but they weren't of this ilk.
Ellison was raised a Catholic, incidentally. He was a convert, originally to the Nation of Islam and then to “mainstream” Islam.
And if this state can elect any people from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party statewide, there is no problem electing someone like Ellison (a DFL member) to that electorate.
It is not correct to say that Ellison, Humphrey and Mondale are not of the same “ilk”, to boot.
He had the right letter next to his name in a rat year. (White) rat voters don’t know (CNN won’t tell them) or don’t care how radical he is.
His race was the closest statewide race in the state though.
Some day - in the not too distant future - the press will look back on their bias and hate during this time -- and feel shame. Similar to the shame they felt in the South in the 60's when they realized what horrible racists they had been ...