Will The Race Card Win A Senate Seat

December 31, 2008 by Jeremy.

That is kind of the going thought right now in the state of Illinois. Just two days ago you could not find one person in the state of Illinois that wanted the current governor to appoint someone to Obama’s empty Senate seat. Both parties wanted (at one point) the seat filled by other means.

Now, however, the tide has changed and Race may win the day.

Jesters don’t pick up the race card in a nationally televised news conference and slam it into the face of every Democrat in the U.S. Senate, a palm heel strike to the tip of the nose, leaving all of them watery-eyed, their lips stinging.

Yet that’s what Blagojevich—aided by former Black Panther-turned-Daley-machine-functionary Bobby Rush—did at that stupendous news conference in Chicago on Tuesday. That’s when the governor appointed Democratic empty suit Roland Burris, an African-American, to fill the Senate seat vacated by Obama.

On Tuesday, Rush was obviously quite ill, but he was not mentally unstable. He was certainly strong enough to use the angry race language of the 1960s as he stood next to Burris and Blagojevich. Rush warned that no sitting Democrat would go on record for long to bar an African-American from taking the seat.

“I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer. Roland Burris is worthy,” Rush said.

Hang? Lynch?

Isn’t that the old politics of race that Obama was to have transcended for us?

Check the whole story out here.

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