Melvin Watt: “I have been on the Hill all day, and I have yet to see a black Member of Congress. And I just wanted to see and talk to…”

“I have been on the Hill all day, and I have yet to see a black Member of Congress. And I just wanted to see and talk to one. It reminded me of the importance of minority representation again in this body, against the backdrop that Monday of this coming week the trial of the case in Shaw versus Reno will commence. So I wanted to come today to remind my colleagues and to appeal to them to support minority representation. We have two cogent things that are upon us in the next month or so. This case, Shaw versus Reno, and what we are about in South Africa. We should demand in our country the same standard of representation among black residents that we demand of South Africa for whites in that country after the free elections.”