Bobby Rush: Obama's win means nothing for racial politics

When Obama ran for the Senate seat in 2004, Rush supported his Democratic primary opponent, Blair Hull, a wealthy white Chicago businessman. Rush supported Obama’s presidential run, but even now he dismisses talk of Obama’s victory as some kind of dawn of a post-racial age in America.

“Well, I never bought into that,” Rush said. “And I absolutely reject it. To me that was nothing more than an election gimmick to try to assuage the feelings of white Americans. That’s really how I saw it.”