“I want them to know me, what I sound like, and I want them to know something about my heart so that they can be inspired or at least knowledgeable about who I am to laugh with me and joke with me and crack jokes about me. “I want to spend time with my grandchildren,” he said. Still, Rush said it’s time to leave, while he can still spend time with his family and congregation. “I’m honored and humbled that they would include me in being part of their inspiration just as I had some people from the past who were my inspiration as a young person trying to find their way,” Rush said. He added the diversity in the incoming representatives and leadership is shocking, especially as they understand it is his shoulders they stand on. But he keeps his former member of Congress ID card in his wallet, which means he’ll have access to the building for life, and promises to come back and visit. Rush told The Hill he’ll miss his colleagues, Capitol staff and the employees he’s had over the years. Obama would later say he had “my rear end handed to me.” Rush is the only politician to ever beat Obama. Barack Obama in the 2000 Democratic primary. Rush has remained popular with his district, consistently winning by large margins, and even defeating then-state Sen. Edgar Hoover to be the ‘greatest threat’ to America’s internal security,” Rush continued, noting he was among the members “subjected to a relentless campaign of surveillance and political repression.” “For that, we were deemed by FBI Director J. “In a nation that had long devalued Black people and rejected Black power, the Panthers preached Black pride and self-determination, defense against police brutality, and economic security for Black America,” Rush wrote in an op-ed last year. Rush co-founded the chapter with Fred Hampton and served as defense minister, coordinating projects to boost support for the group throughout the Black community. That year, the Black Panther Party of Chicago was born. 23, 1946, Rush’s family moved to Chicago in 1953. Rush’s “first love” of social justice dates back to the 1960s and his time as a Black Panther.īorn in segregated Albany, Georgia, on Nov. “I’m returning home to my church and to my community, and I’m returning to my first love which is basically social justice and community organizing,” said the 75-year-old pastor.
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