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Introduction
When the brilliant Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Stanford honors student, Yale Law School graduate and a former Rhodes Scholar, is sworn in as New Jersey's next U.S. senator on Oct. 31 (a historical event that should be widely heralded as a triumph of vision and one candidate's unwavering and consistent moral commitment to public service), it will mark only the second time in history that two African Americans will be serving in the Senate at the same time.
This milestone, remarkably, was only reached earlier this year after Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina elevated Rep. Tim Scott to Jim DeMint's old seat and Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts appointed his former chief of staff, William "Mo" Cowan, to fill the vacancy left by current Secretary of State John Kerry until a special election could be held in June.
problem also only one will speak from an unscripted position the other will get his at the morning marching orders meet.
While Sens. Cowan and Scott only had a few months together in office, Booker and Scott will share the same chamber (at least) through 2014 when both must run again -- Scott, for the first time, statewide.In both cases, Scott, a Tea Party favorite and the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction, has been matched up with a Northeastern Democrat, one who has already officiated same-sex weddings in his state. What a gesture it would be for them to sit together at President Obama's next State of the Union address in January. While their respective parties may continue to be divided over how best to represent the "1 percent" and the "99 percent," the Senate is now 2 percent black. In a nation that has twice elected a black man to its highest office, it is news at least worth noting -- and, yes, for many, celebrating.While Sens. Cowan and Scott only had a few months together in office, Booker and Scott will share the same chamber (at least) through 2014 when both must run again -- Scott, for the first time, statewide. In both cases, Scott, a Tea Party favorite and the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction, has been matched up with a Northeastern Democrat, one who has already officiated same-sex weddings in his state. What a gesture it would be for them to sit together at President Obama's next State of the Union address in January. While their respective parties may continue to be divided over how best to represent the "1 percent" and the "99 percent," the Senate is now 2 percent black. In a nation that has twice elected a black man to its highest office, it is news at least worth noting -- and, yes, for many, celebrating.
although genetically Scott fits the story line but that is as far as it goes, he has hitched his wagon to the elephant caravan he stands behind them and nods and grins, there is happy to be here and just giddy with what i've done, which is aligned with a party that hates him is he to stupid to see that cause they sure aren't shy about showing him.
does he think they are high fiving his addition to the club, bet he doesn't have the key to the restroom probably a bowl with quarters for the local gas station.
they put him with the other Black guy hardly a welcome, more of a WHITES ONLY THING.
When Eric Foner of Columbia University, our leading historian on Reconstruction and an advisor on my current PBS series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (Episode 2 airs Tuesday night), emailed me about these amazing facts the morning after Booker's victory, I knew I wanted to find out more about our early black senators.From working on the series, I was aware of the nearly 90-year gap separating the nation's first two, Hiram R. Revels (1870-1871) and Blanche K. Bruce (1875-1881), and the third, Edward W. Brooke (1967-1979),but I had no idea I would discover through research that Revels' swearing in would be delayed by the dead hand of the worst decision in Supreme Court history, or that before "Jim Crow" -- in fact, just a decade after the Civil War -- two other black men would almost achieve what Scott and Cowan and Scott and Booker have this year.That's right! It could -- and, as we'll see in next week's column, should -- have happened 138 years ago on March 5, 1875, two years before Reconstruction ended. This was when the Senate moved to swear in the (second) black man whom Mississippi had sent to Washington, Blanche K. Bruce, even as it continued refusing to seat the first from Louisiana, P.S.B. Pinchback, a Civil War veteran and former state governor who'd been haunting the halls of Congress for two long years waiting for an answer.
its amazing how much was left out of our history by design, we have pride we are proud even during our darkest times under this country's rule, from 3/5ths of a human being to President of the United States of America that some still do not accept, we are where we are because we are divided and not by our choice.
this is what we have done under their thumb just as today's accomplishments by Pres. in-spite of them .
what have they done for you lartely? recognize
