Meet "Angry Ernie" Chambers, Nebraska's lone black state senator. As a child, he was traumatised by going to school with whites. Now that he's gotten the entire Omaha school system segregated, he feels much better.
UPDATE:
Had to include this marvelous bit:
The senator is dividing a district he attended as a student into what amounts to three areas separated by race and on Friday he told the country why he did it.
"If they had not mistreated me as a child, they might not have to deal with the Senator Chambers you see here today," he said.
Legislation as personal psychotherapy. Why hasn't any one thought of this before?
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Posted by floridacracker at April 16, 2006 03:30 PMto be honest, I too, was traumatized by going to school...
Posted by: csason at April 16, 2006 06:25 PMMe too! I recall in elementary school having a love note I was sending being intercepted and the teacher reading it out loud. Separate schools for boys and girls would have prevented that horror.
Posted by: Donnah at April 16, 2006 06:36 PMChambers has been a weight around Nebraska's neck for far too many years. Thank God and Greyhound he's gone!!
Posted by: LeAnn at April 16, 2006 08:40 PMAfter 36 years, he's going out with a bang, huh?
Posted by: Donnah at April 16, 2006 08:54 PMI don't know if it is the sorry state of public education or the sad fact that we have so many elected officials that just cannot manage to make coherent decisions. I just see them both heading over the cliff together. Then again, the electorate / parents have handed them the reigns and don't seem to mind much.
Posted by: tfhr at April 16, 2006 11:49 PMAfter the Revolution, I wonder who was the first loser to get elected to a State Senate? My guess, it happened the very first election.;)
Posted by: Donnah at April 19, 2006 02:47 PM