We’ve all been on tenterhooks, whatever they are, awaiting a result in Mississippi. CNN just called the senate election for Democrat Scott Colom. I’m dispensing with the first Democrat since 1982 shtick as that was John Stennis a Dixiecrat who voted nay on all the major Civil Rights legislation including the voting rights act.

Reconstruction is the real landmark here. Colom is the first Black senator since Blanche K. Bruce who left office in 1881. He was a Republican who was selected by the Magnolia State lege. That makes Scott Colom the first elected Black senator in Mississippi history. What a feat. What a candidate.

The featured image is a portrait of Senator Bruce on the left and Scott Colom on the right. The man is a born fighter who will make his state proud when he’s seated in the United States senate.

Repeat after me: Fuck yeah, Mississippi.

At the risk of being repetitive, the last word goes to Sam Cooke: