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Originally posted by librasoul22
And omg! He hired ONE black person??? Well let me erase this entire post!!  How many employees has he had TOTAL throughout his LOOOOOONG career? Sigh.
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In fairness, the stories I read say he hired THE FIRST black staffer of any Southern Senator -- not that he hired ONE. I have no idea how many he did or didn't hire. It also says he was the driving guy behind Justice Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court, voted in favor of Martin Luther King's birthday as Federal holiday, pushed through the first black Federal Judge in the South among other things.
Frankly, I never liked the guy much, but I don't think it is entirely fair to hold the way he was a half century ago, when social mores were totally different in the whole country not to mention the South where he grew up against him now.
The whole country has changed dramatically in that amount of time -- I'm willing to believe that the late Senator might have also.