Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Says Obama’s Senate Seat Is A “Black’ Senate Seat
And thus should only go to someone who is black.
Betcha didn’t know that the elected office of Senator of the United States of America was a color coded position? Apparently, Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times thinks it is, anyway, because she is warning that Obama’s “black Senate seat” will be lost because of this mess with Governor Rod Blagojevich getting arrested for trying to sell that “black seat” to the highest bidder.
In hers headlined “Black leaders see Senate seat being hijacked,” Washington is ostensibly reporting on what black community leaders and politicos in Chicago are saying about who should be appointed to fill Obama’s vacant seat
Can you imagine what the outcry would be like if, say, Atlanta’s Neal Boortz suggested that Saxby Chambliss’ Senate Seat was a “white” seat and should only go to a white man? Boortz would be off the air in a heartbeat.
But a news reporter suggesting that a seat belongs to blacks? Totally accepted.
I’m wondering why skin color matters. White. Black. Asian. Hispanic. Who cares?
Obama’s Senate seat should be filled by someone who best represents the voters of Illinois. All of the voters, whatever their skin color.
Because we’re never going to get past the racial issues if we don’t, in fact, move past them.
