Blacklisted: Why Are There No African Americans In The US
Senate?    • Share on Tumblr  As a young African-American man
who aspires to one day serve my state in the United States
Senate, it would seem, much to my chagrin, that all the odds are
not in my favor. The 112th Congress (2011-2013) did not have a
single African-American Senator, and the incoming 113th
Congress, which will serve from 2013-2015 will be African-
American-less as well. The United States Senate has failed to
have a African-American Senator since Roland Burris (who
replaced Barack Obama when he assumed the office of President in
2009). And, before the people of the great state of Illinois
sent Barack Obama to the Senate in 2004, there hadn’t been an
African-American in that body since 1999. Only six African-
Americans have served in the United States Senate since the
inception of that body in April of 1789.  Historical Nature
Once the stains of slavery were wiped from the nation’s
conscience and Reconstruction was instituted, a glimpse of h