re: #378 HappyWarrior

“Apparently he did. Kirk should be embarrassed. I mean as I said I never thought too highly of him but I thought he was at least above acting like Joe Walsh.”

For persons like Mark Kirk, it’s easy to dismiss the contributions of your fellow Americans if they don’t look like them. A case in point happened when FL Michelle Obama had the gall to mention that the WH and other federal buildings in D.C. were built with the help of enslaved black laborers. Bill O’Reilly, the self-styled historian, was one of the first with a prominent media platform to attempt to distort the record by claiming that the federal government provided, food, clothing, and housing to the enslaved laborers. He just couldn’t accept the contribution enslaved laborers made to this nation, so he had to make is seem that the feds were taking care of them when nothing of the sort happened. If anyone was guaranteed pay for their labor, it was the enslaved laborers’ owners. I can well imagine that when Kirk made the comment, he had no idea how demeaning and racist it was. He had to remind Illinois voters that Ms. Duckworth is to be viewed as an outsider based on her heritage. After all, she doesn’t look like him, so she must not be a true American patriot like he is.