The United States Senate is a funny affair. Each state of the union gets two Senators, no matter if that state is California -- with a population of 34 million people -- or Wyoming with just 500,000. And no matter how many voters and votes in your state, you need to gather if not a majority than at least a bucketload of them to get sent to Washington. And 13% of the population of the United States is of African descent; New York, the state with the highest black population is still at less than 20%. As a representative body, it makes sense there is not one black Senator in the United States Senate today. By the numbers, it makes sense that there have been only four black United States Senators ever and two in last 125 years. But I still find it amazing.
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