Congress: The first black Republican senator in three decades will be? a spokesman for Tea Party conservatism and a proud member of the party that was? founded to fight slavery and made the civil rights revolution possible.
Though he'll inevitably be dismissed as a "token" or worse, Rep. Tim Scott,? the next Republican senator from the former slave state of South Carolina, and? the first black GOP senator since Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, shatters once? again the stereotype of the GOP as a party of racists and sexists.
Appointed by an Indian-American female, Gov. Nikki Haley, to replace outgoing? Republican and Tea Party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint, Scott got the chance to be? the first black congressional Republican since 2003 ? when J.C. Watts of? Oklahoma left Congress ? by beating the son of Strom Thurmond, South Carolina's? legendary politician, in the 2010 GOP primary.
The elder Thurmond was the nominee of the genuinely racist Dixiecrat Party,? which split off from the Democrats in 1948. The symbolism of Scott holding Strom? Thurmond's seat in the U.S. Senate, after beating Thurmond's son in his first? U.S. House race, should not be lost on anyone.
Scott joins Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Nevada? Gov. Brian Sandoval, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Texas Sen.-elect Ted Cruz? as another high-profile exception to the media portrayal of the Republican Party? as a collection of Paleolithic white males so hostile to women and minorities? that they opposed Susan Rice as secretary of state even though they'd put forth? Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell as her predecessors.
Read More At IBD:? http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/121812-637548-nikki-haley-...
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