The Burris story stopped being a Blagojevich story when it became a race story. Suddenly a nation that had congratulated itself on ending a color bar in the White House watched an all-white Senate turn a black man out in the rain even though he had been appointed to the body. Blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But they were "unrepresented" symbolically in the old club now that Obama has left it. One seat.
Reflect. Jews are 2 percent of the American population, fill 13 seats in the Senate. What does this signify about Jewish acceptance, wealth, and power? What does this signify about political support for the slaughter in Gaza?
