The 47 year old Scott is a Tea Klux Klan favorite who was elected to the House in 2010 from a district that includes north Charleston and Myrtle Beach, SC. He beat the son of notorious segregationist Strom Thurmond in the GOP primary that year on his way to election..
Scott will be the first Black* senator from South Carolina, the seventh in US history and the first from the South since Hiram Revels (1870) and Blanche K Bruce (1875-1881) represented Mississippi during Reconstruction.
In addition to Revels and Bruce, the other Republican senator was Edward Brooke from Massachusetts.
He was the first African-American elected to the US senate by popular vote and represented the state from (1967-1979) Brooke was a moderate Republican who championed mass transit, low-income housing and a higher minimum wage.
The Democratic African-American senators all come from Illinois and includes the only Black female US senator in Carol Moseley Braun. She served from 1993-1999, was a prosecutor before winning political office and called for more restrictive gun laws during her tenure. Unfortunately she was defeated in her first re-election bid and was later appointed as the US ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
We know about the second US senator from Illinois because he now lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But before he became the 44th president of the United States in 2008, in November 2004 Barack Obama was elected to the Senate in a landslide over his GOP opponent Alan Keyes.
When President Obama left the Senate, Roland W. Burris was appointed to Obama's seat on December. 31, 2008. He served two years and was reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee for being misleading about his controversial appointment to the seat by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Now that I've discussed the history of African-Americans in the US Senate, back to the conservanegro about to replace Jim DeMint. Scott achieved a 92 percent score on the Club for Growth’s legislative scorecard, which meant that he was more conservative than all but 30 members of the House.
He will have to run for the seat in 2014, so South Carolina Democrats, you have time to get a candidate to take him on.
Knee-grow sycophants mouthing the same failed conservative policies as their white brethern not only will not get our votes, but it's an insult to our intelligence if you think the only reason we vote for candidates is based on the color of their skin.
But then again, that's a play you vanillacentric privileged conservafools have perfected.
It's even more of an insult when you nominate a guy who earned an F on the NAACP Congressional Report card and supports policies hostile to African-Americans.
Let me count the ways. Scott called for the impeachment of President Obama if he raised the debt ceiling, is virulently anti-gay, opposes a woman's right to choose, the labor movement, opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
And oh yeah, he's the first one along with Angela McGlowan and CL Bryant the Tea Klux Klan trot out when they need a knee-grow human shield to deflect attention from their racism.
The conservafools are hailing Scott's Senate appointment, but many African-Americans aren't. He's just another cookie-chomping knee-grow sellout to us.
Break out the Oreos.
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