Posted on 11/29/2010 12:23:12 PM PST by Dengar01
When Mark Kirk is sworn in this afternoon, the U.S. Senate will once again have no African-Americans.
Since Reconstruction, there have only been four black senators. Three of them -- Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama and Roland Burris -- have held the seat that Kirk is about to occupy.
For reasons that go back more than a century, all the way to the First Great Migration from the South, Illinois has led the nation in black political empowerment. We’ve elected more black statewide officials than anyone else. We produced the first black president. And it was a matter of pride among many Illinoisans that we kept the Senate integrated. In 2004, we picked such a great black senator that he went on to integrate the presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
I don’t remember any cries of racism from the liberals when Michael Steele was beaten by a white man in a Senate race.
We have very intelligent black people coming up the ranks so don’t let that worry your little pea brains NBC5. 0 had his chance to be extraordinary but blacks have been let down because 0 is a socialist at the least.
The next black will be a Republican. Wrap your little pea brains around that.
Hmmm ... three black, anti-American, socialist, thieving dunces from the same town. Chicago -- an epic failure.
From Wikipedia...
Edward William Brooke, III (born October 26, 1919), is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate[1] when he was elected as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 60.7%–38.7%. He was also the first African American elected to the Senate since the 19th century, and would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun in 1993, and was the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until the 2010 election of Scott Brown.
Some people might disagree.
Or, did you mean "currently serving" US Senators only? (Gotta ask these days, since the Slickster told us what "is" is....)
>> How Mark Kirk Re-Segregates the Senate
How Barack Obama’s ambition re-segregated the Senate ...
If only he remained the do-nothing Senator from Illinois.
SnakeDoc
Ummm . . .
NOT “Congress” -— this is talking about the US Senate.
There are around 40 blacks in the US House of Representatives.
“Congress” contains both the House and the Senate.
YES, Allen West is sooo far above the vast majority of pols of any race or gender or ethnicity.
People should learn to focus upon people like him as a model of excellence in a HUMAN BEING and forget about supporting the race pimps and hustlers who make up the “Progressive” Democrats caucus and the “Hispanic” caucus and the “African-American” caucus....
The author forgets Obama is not black. He is 1/2 white and 1/2 black. Why that makes him “black” is beyond me.
How dare the voters pick who they think is best qualified to govern instead of allowing affirmative action to just appoint a black man to the Senate seat. Maybe if Roland Burris hadn’t been utterly corrupt, a black man would still hold this seat. I might point out the other black Senator the article mentions as being one of 3 black senators to hold this seat was also expelled for being corrupt. I suppose of Giannoulis had one he’d be black enough for NBC5 huh.
The author should have mentioned that the first two black U.S. senators were Republicans.
Good point. People get all cross ways on me when I tell them that I’m a Native American because I was born here.
Don’t think so...
I meant that our country has never had a U.S. senator who was born in Africa, but I might be wrong. I think that maybe Obama was born in Kenya or Hawaii. I haven’t seen enough proof, either way.
Now, you know those aren’t “real” black men./sarc
More rascist crap.
All you have to do to be elected in Illinoise is have black skin and a sugar daddy with a few million bucks put into the campaign kitty.
Great qualifications for a politician these days.
A few rap lines and you’re in like Flynn.
Yep, thats sure to be good for the country.
So which is it Illinois elects blacks or whites to the Senate?
How young? Will the book include photos of his birthplace?
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