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Roland Burris from Illinois via Iraq

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, January 7 2009, 23:18:53 (CET)
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...one of the complaints about not seating Senate designate Roland Burris is that without his presence in the Senate, there would be no Blacks...no African-Americans in a governmental body that represents 300 million Americans, a good 20% of whom are Black. Blacks, like Chjristians in Iraq, could cry out, "we need our own representative"! And that's true...but in a democracy you can't APOINT someone to represent one minority...if that minority person can get elected, fine....but there's nothing in a democracy that DEMANDS a representative "for us".

In the case of Burris it's slightly different because he was appointed and not elected...but still, the idea that the Senate MUST accept Burris because otherwise there would be no Black representation doesn't hold water in a democracy...especially at a time when the nation elected a Black man for president.

And so it goes in Iraq...our people can't expect a representative to be APPOINTED to represent them....doesn't work that way.

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