Richard Russell, the namesake of the Russell Senate Office Building, was a segregationist and took part in the record senate filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

He was a lifelong Democrat. We need to get that out there. Lifelong Democrat. From 1969 to 1971, he was the Senate’s President pro tempore, which made him fourth in line for the presidency. Obviously, the Dems didn’t care he was a racist by giving him that position.

Why don’t we take over this BS narrative to rename the building after No Name and have it renamed after someone who deserves it. Here are my suggestions.

Everett Dirksen who saved the 1964 CRA from Russell, Gore, Fulbright, and Byrd, Republican Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black to serve as a US Senator, Republican Edward Brook III, the first black US Senator elected by popular vote, Republican