Black lawmakers emotional about Obama's success
By: Josephine Hearn
The Politico
Excerpt:
June 5, 2008 01:04 PM EST
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him.
I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, What would Dr. King think? the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.
As the only living person to have spoken at the lectern the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech, Lewis was perhaps the best person to answer a question that occupied the minds of many Americans.
Lewis touched Ellerys arm and paused.
He would have been very, very pleased, Lewis said. He probably would have said, Hallelujah!
On Capitol Hill, as across the country Wednesday, African-Americans reflected on Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obamas historic rise as the first black presidential nominee to lead a major political party. They noted that only a few decades ago, African-Americans were fighting across large swaths of the South for basic human rights, hardly pondering the possibility that one of them might soon lead the country.
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obamas victory overwhelmed him.
I cried all night. Im going to be crying for the next four years, he said. What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nations political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
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First of all, MLK Jr was a Republican. Second, he wanted people judged, not by the color of their skin, but, by the content of their character, Obama just doesn't live up to that. His entire campaign has been little more, than "vote for me, I'm black" That is the LAST thing anyone should want and would likely have enraged Rev, King.
Had a republican made a statement like Congressman Jackson (Racebaiter Ill) he'd have been pilloried on every news show, on every channel for weeks, but, then he wouldn't have been promoting Saint Barry the Obamamessiah. Had a republican, well had anyone but a liberal democrat said such a thing we'd hear screeching from the ACLU, America United for the Separation of Church and State, etc.
What do we hear now?
Crickets...
By: Josephine Hearn
The Politico
Excerpt:
June 5, 2008 01:04 PM EST
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him.
I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, What would Dr. King think? the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.
As the only living person to have spoken at the lectern the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech, Lewis was perhaps the best person to answer a question that occupied the minds of many Americans.
Lewis touched Ellerys arm and paused.
He would have been very, very pleased, Lewis said. He probably would have said, Hallelujah!
On Capitol Hill, as across the country Wednesday, African-Americans reflected on Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obamas historic rise as the first black presidential nominee to lead a major political party. They noted that only a few decades ago, African-Americans were fighting across large swaths of the South for basic human rights, hardly pondering the possibility that one of them might soon lead the country.
(((SNIP)))
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obamas victory overwhelmed him.
I cried all night. Im going to be crying for the next four years, he said. What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nations political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
(((END EXCERPT)))
First of all, MLK Jr was a Republican. Second, he wanted people judged, not by the color of their skin, but, by the content of their character, Obama just doesn't live up to that. His entire campaign has been little more, than "vote for me, I'm black" That is the LAST thing anyone should want and would likely have enraged Rev, King.
Had a republican made a statement like Congressman Jackson (Racebaiter Ill) he'd have been pilloried on every news show, on every channel for weeks, but, then he wouldn't have been promoting Saint Barry the Obamamessiah. Had a republican, well had anyone but a liberal democrat said such a thing we'd hear screeching from the ACLU, America United for the Separation of Church and State, etc.
What do we hear now?
Crickets...
