Cory Booker, who became a rising star in the Democratic Party as mayor of Newark, has been sworn in to the U.S. Senate, becoming New Jersey’s first black senator.
Booker, 44, won a special election Oct. 16 to fill out the term of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Vice President Joe Biden conducted the ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber.
Booker is now one of two black senators currently serving; Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina was elected last year. There have been just nine in U.S. history, and he is only the fourth to be popularly elected.
{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}
mazal tov
Swearing is meaningless
What difference what color he is?
There goes the neighborhood. Another Barry supporter
first a black president…now a black senator…..
beautiful
we have made progress. May we see more.
I do not agree with the machlokes spreaders….the azus to say something like that. we b”h live in a society that treats everyone equaly
Cory Booker is actually (like President Barack Obama, the son of a white mother), of mixed racial background. Booker’s maternal great grandfather was a white doctor in Louisiana. For more on this, see http://www.theroot.com/views/surprise-cory-bookers-family-tree
Why the mention of his race? Haven’t we gotten past that already?