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Racist Black Leaders In Chicago Fighting To Keep Obama’s “Black Senate Seat”
If you thought Barack Obama’s election to the highest office in the land would usher in a new post-racial period for America — think again. Laura Washington’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times today is about the perceived ‘hijacking’ of Barack Obama’s “black Senate seat” through a possible special election in light of Gov. Blago’s corruption.
The so-called “Concerned Clergy of Illinois” (meaning concerned black clergy concerned about black people) believes that the federal corruption investigation of Blagojevich is cover for a conspiracy by whites to take Obama’s “black senate seat.”
Meanwhile, the concerned clergy, a cadre of several dozen prominent black ministers, are “appalled” by the fallout of the sensational federal investigation. They see it as a thinly veiled attempt by white pols to hijack the seat, says Stephanie Gadlin, the coalition’s spokeswoman.
There’s a massive conspiracy afoot, Gadlin says. “We see it for what it is. What we are really looking at is ‘The Luck of the Irish’ — two Madigans, Fitzgerald, Durbin, Cullerton, Claypool, Daley, and all the rest. They’re making a power play to regain the control of the politics, money and jobs in this state.”
…White voters don’t and won’t accept the idea that America and Illinois need — and deserve — a black senator. (When the Senate was all white, they never complained).
So white people were fine with electing a black president, but electing a black senator is a bridge too far? The real issue here is that Chicago is full of black racists who flat out don’t like white people. Secondly, I wasn’t aware that Barack Obama had a ‘black’ seat in the senate. I thought his seat was the same color as all the other seats. People like Laura Washington (racist people) aren’t interested in filling a job with the most competent or qualified person, but rather with someone who shares the same skin color as them.
Black leaders in Chicago don’t want the people to have a chance to vote, because they may not elect a black person to fill Obama’s seat. The blacks who claim a racial conspiracy are in fact the only ones motivated by race in this situation. Barack Obama’s senate seat is not the property of black people simply because the guy who filled it was black.
Assuming his senate seat was filled by another black guy, what would that really mean? Did the south side of Chicago get any less corrupt, poor, or violent when Obama was a senator from Illinois? How did having a black senator from Chicago help the black community in Illinois?
The one thing about Barack Obama that sets him apart from his black colleagues in Chicago is that he doesn’t view everything through a racial lens. His blackness doesn’t come before everything in his life. He’s interested in doing the right thing for the whole community not just the black community. Unlike his pastor of 20 years, Obama doesn’t see a conspiracy cooked up by ‘white devils’ around every corner.
Blacks in Chicago need to wise-up and get with the times. Stop playing the perpetual victim. Stop pretending to be persecuted.
-Chris Jones
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