“When he ran for statewide office in Massachusetts, and one - TopicsExpress



          

“When he ran for statewide office in Massachusetts, and one reporter pointed out that he was black, Republican, and Protestant, seeking office in a white, Democratic, and Catholic state — and also, quote, ‘…a carpetbagger from the South and…poor’ — Ed was unfazed. It was, to say the least, an improbable profile for the man who would become the first African American state attorney general, and the first popularly elected African American senator,” President Barack Obama said during a 2009 ceremony when he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
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