There has never been a Black speaker of the House.
I've been thinking about that piece of trivia a lot since the day George Floyd was murdered in May 2020. When put to a vote, the country twice elected a Black person to be president before white liberals in Congress could once elect a Black person to be third in line. In our entire history, that has been the case. It's frustrating, isn't it? Washington politics. If national politics were all that mattered, I could understand why some Black people would be tempted to ask themselves "why bother?"
That is certainly the sentiment a lot of people felt was being conveyed in a tweet that legendary rapper Luther Campbell posted on Sunday, asking followers to "give me five reasons why Black people should Vote in the next election. Give me five BLACK promises that has been fulfilled by politicians in the last election. MAYOR &PRESIDENT"
