Sen. Roland Burris is keeping his head high and his pace quick as he goes about the daily business of being the junior senator from Illinois.
It's been a rough couple of months for the Chicagoan, but a recent article in The New Yorker shares a perspective most Illinois resident may be missing amid his Blagojevich-tainted appointment.
"Few senators in history have made a more ignominious national début than Roland Burris," Jeffrey Toobin writes in the article.
"In his very ordinariness, Burris may represent a triumph of sorts for the civil-rights movement, which was, at least in part, a struggle for black people to be seen as just like everybody else," the article states.
It's an article well-worth the read, if you care to give Burris a fair shake.
