Bobby Rush
Bobby Rush
Bobby Lee Rushis the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district, serving in Congress for more than two decades; he was first elected in 1992 and took office in 1993. He has since won consecutive re-election. The district was located principally on the South Side of Chicago, with a population from 2003 to early 2013 that was 65% African-American, a higher proportion than any other congressional district in the nation. In 2011 the Republican-dominated legislature redistricted this area following the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1946
CityAlbany, GA
CountryUnited States of America
We have to make people believe that the blues festival is here to stay, and that it's being done right. I think that this time people will see that we mean business, and they'll come back on board.
If in fact New Orleans were populated by middle-class whites, then you would have seen a far different response.
I want to cross over, not cross out.
There are communities that are moving forward now because (the Community Reinvestment Act) ... was the economic engine.
The Lord called me to plant a church.
The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
This is precisely the kind of insensitive, hurtful and ignorant rhetoric that Americans have grown tired of.
I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.
How ridiculous, how asinine, how insane can one be?!