I’m being completely serious. From “How Mark Kirk Re-Segregates the Senate:”
For reasons that go back more than a century, all the way to the First Great Migration from the South, Illinois has led the nation in black political empowerment. We’ve elected more black statewide officials than anyone else. We produced the first black president. And it was a matter of pride among many Illinoisans that we kept the Senate integrated. In 2004, we picked such a great black senator that he went on to integrate the presidency.
This is no slur against Kirk. It’s not a slur against Illinois, either. It shouldn’t be our responsibility to provide a black senator. It’s a slur against the other 49 states, who refuse to elect a black politician to the U.S. Senate.
I’d like to introduce Mr. McClelland to Cedra Crenshaw. She was a black contender for Illinois state senate but the Chicago machine employed every dirty trick against her and even unsuccessfully ran her off the ballot.
Because she was a Republican.
Yet after 4 p.m. today, African-Americans will make up 0 percent of the nation’s most prestigious elective body. That’s disgraceful.
Yes, Mr. McClelland, it’s disgraceful how you ignore candidates of color when they don’t serve the plantation politics of progressivism. So when the Chicago machine was forcing out a mother-politician off the ballot because she threatened the progressive narrative that people of color can’t be conservative, that wasn’t, as McClelland so aptly writes, “segregation?”
That may sound harsh, but I’m not in the mood to bestow courtesy upon someone who apparently believes himself so versed in Illinois politics that he’s selling a book on it; thus the omission of the aforementioned is a monumental error on his part while also showing extreme bias.
I did a brief search and found that McClelland only wrote of Crenshaw once, in a post titled: “Tea’s Nuts: Brady Brings the Tea Party to Cook County but, Like, Why?”
Brady will be the only big-name Republican at the Tea Party. The other guests include Joel Pollak, who’s running against Schakowsky and state senate candidate Cedra Crenshaw.
McClelland’s piece misses the elephant in the room, pun intended: there is a prejudice against conservatives, especially so against conservatives of color. I have personally fielded calls and emails from white and black liberals on my radio show wherein they slurred my black conservative guests as “uncle Toms,” etc.
The left has done a remarkable job marketing themselves as being the party for minorities when every single policy they put forth, from education to employment, has done more to harm these communities than to help. It’s quite an unbelievable scenario: make a living advocating for a particular group while feeding them to the wolves every term and blaming the problem on Republicans – which is why that particular group should vote for you again, so on and so forth. It’s now cyclical. People like McClelland perpetuate it. And why not? He’s got a book to sell.
Look at every major city from New Orleans, St. Louis, Detroit, etc. where complaints about unemployment and crime are high and tell me what party controls – and has controlled – those cities the longest.
The biggest question isn’t why the lack of black senators – we certainly had a record number of black candidates running including Charles Lollar who lost his challenge to Steny Hoyer – but why do they always have to be liberal? And why, when they’re not liberal, are they run out on a rail like Elijah Lovejoy?
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