Emil Jones: History of Racist Remarks

Illinois Senate President and Obama mentor Emil Jones is not new to the game of race baiting. Early in 2007, for example, he gave a thinly veiled racial justification for supporting Barack Obama: Lynn Sweet, in the Chicago Sun-Times, February 6, 2007: "And I know that Barack Obama is our son and he deserves our support." He made a similar race-based appeal to a group of black Democratic activists Friday at a closed Democratic National Committee winter meeting. FULL ARTICLE at Sun-Times...