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Illinois Has Less Than A 12 Percent Black Population And I Won With 55 Percent Of The Vote.

My Parents Were Always Philosophizing About How To Bring About Change. To Me, People Who Didn't Try To Make The World A Better Place Were Strange.

There Are Those Who Would Keep Us Slipping Back Into The Darkness Of Division, Into The Snake Pit Of Racial Hatred, Of Racial Antagonism And Of Support For Symbols Of The Struggle To Keep African-americans In Bondage.

Im Committed To Universal Health Coverage And Education.

I Was The Only Person Of Color In The Senate, And My Colleagues Were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms And Trent Lott.