Congress: The first black Republican senator in three decades will be a spokesman for Tea Party conservatism and a proud member of the party that was founded to fight slavery and made the civil rights revolution possible.
Though he'll inevitably be dismissed as a "token" or worse, Rep. Tim Scott, the next Republican senator from the former slave state of South Carolina, and the first black GOP senator since Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, shatters once again the stereotype of the GOP as a party of racists and sexists.
Appointed by an Indian-American female, Gov. Nikki Haley, to replace outgoing Republican and Tea Party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint, Scott got the chance to be the first black congressional Republican since 2003 — when J.C. Watts of Oklahoma left Congress — by beating the son of Strom Thurmond, South Carolina's legendary politician, in the 2010 GOP primary.
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