James Clyburn dismisses Tim Scott's historic Senate victory in South Carolina

On Tuesday night Tim Scott became the first African American elected to the US Senate from South Carolina. An unimpressed Rep.James Clyburn , a black congressman made the following statement to the Washington Post dismissing the victory.

If you call progress electing a person with the pigmentation that he has, who votes against the interest and aspirations of 95 percent of the black people in South Carolina, then I guess that’s progress.

[SOURCE] Examples of Clyburn's statement would include Scott getting an F on the NAACP annual scorecard. Voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he voted to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress, opposed the Congressional Black Caucus’s budget proposal and voted to delay funding a settlement between the United States and black farmers who alleged that the federal government refused them loans because of their race

Tim Scott: First African American elected to US Senate from S.C.

[SOURCE] U.S. Sen. Tim Scott on Tuesday became the first African-American elected to the Senate from South Carolina and the first black elected to a statewide office since Reconstruction.

Scott, a Republican, defeated his black Democratic challenger, Joyce Dickerson of Columbia, and Tega Cay's Jill Bossi, a candidate in the newly formed American Party, according to The Associated Press.

Mia Love: First black republican female elected to Congress

Republican Mia Love defeated her Democratic opponent Doug Owens in the race to represent Utah's 4th congressional district, the AP reported early Wednesday.

With that win, Love becomes the first black woman Republican elected to Congress.

Bonnie Watson Coleman: First African-American female elected to congress from NJ

[SOURCE] Bonnie Watson Coleman will become the first African-American female member of New Jersey's congressional delegation in state history.

The Democratic state Assemblywoman from Mercer County beat Republican Alieta Eck, a doctor, to win the open seat in central Jersey's 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press.

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