BREAKING Patrick Picks Mo Cowan: For First Time in History, 2 Blacks Will Serve in Senate http://politic365.com/2013/01/30/patrick-picks-william-mo-cowan-for-first-time-in-history-two-blacks-will-serve-in-senate/
There has never been two African Americans serving in the United States Senate at the same time in American history. Today at 11 a.m., Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will announce that his former chief of staff, William “Mo” Cowan, will take the place of departing Senator John Kerry. Kerry became the Secretary of State this week. Cowan will serve along with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Cowan will become only the eighth African American U.S. Senator in U.S. history.
“He grew up in a largely segregated tobacco town in rural North Carolina, the son of a machinist and a seamstress. As a boy, he watched the Ku Klux Klan burn a cross in town, march on his high school, and hand out literature on Main Street,” wrote Michael Levenson of Cowan in a profile in the Boston Globe in 2010.
There will be a total of 44 African American members of Congress after Cowan is sworn-in.
Though Cowan is a historic pick as he joins the Senate, he will likely only serve in the institution for a very short time. The special election for Kerry’s Senate seat is on June 25. The rumor is that Gov. Patrick requested that the person selected not run for the seat. But that’s just a rumor. You never know what can happen in politics.
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Black History Month: Honors Education Brilliance of W.E.B.DUBOIS…In our continuing tribute to Great Black Leaders and Thinkers throughout our history,this week we honor those who made a Significant and Meaningful Contribution in the area of Education…DUBOIS was one of the[20th]century’s Greatest Educational Thinkers and Philosophers…DUBOIS describes the need for Black Educators tasked with pulling Black People out of forced ignorance;to be even more skilled and prepared than their White Peers…”The Negro problem,it is often been said,is largely a problem of ignorance;not simply of illiteracy,but a deeper ignorance of the world and its ways;of the thought and experience of men;an ignorance of self and the possibilities of human souls…”This can be gotten rid of only by training;and primarily such training must take the form of that sort of Social Leadership which we call Education.