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What not to say to black people when you are Rand Paul



In his relentless southern avenger mode to pursue and persuade black voters to become fans Rand Paul continues to suffer from foot-in-mouth disorder.

At the Urban League, Rand Paul says he’s a minority because of the “shade of his ideology” :

Rand Paul addressed the Urban League this morning in Cincinnati and in a TelePrompTer speech that included a quote from Malcolm X, Kentucky’s junior Senator and famed opponent of the Civil Rights Act declared himself a minority.

Apparently opposing the Civil Rights Act is the same as being Black or Hispanic. And according to Rand Paul, all of his libertarian and Tea Party supporters are just as punished as actual minorities because of the “shade of their ideology.”

Seriously.

Oh well-This proves black folks ain’t buying the crazy (from his home state press coverage):

Sparse crowd hears Rand Paul’s Urban League speech

CINCINNATI – U.S. Sen. Rand Paul isn’t going person to person to try to sell his message of a more inclusive Republican Party to minority groups.

But with only about 60 people gathering to hear Paul’s highly anticipated speech to the National Urban League on Friday morning, it sure felt that way.

From Wonkette:

Rand Paul Is Also A Minority And Will Lead His Libertarian People Out of Bondage

Poor Rand Paul. It’s hard out there for a libertarian, what with The Man always trying to keep him down, pointing out the ridiculousness of his ideology and how it never holds up in real-life scenarios. But what can a man like Rand Paul do except keep fighting the good fight, keep on keeping on to the water’s edge, because Rand Paul has been to the mountaintop, Rand Paul has seen the Promised Land, and he yearns for the day when all little boys and girls, black or white, yellow or red, liberal or conservative or libertarian or communist, will be judged not by the color of their skin or the content of their political ideology, but by whatever’s left. Character? Sure, let’s go with character.

Twitter has taken up the theme at #RandPaulMinority

One of my favorites so far is:

Yo’ Rand.  Perhaps you should know that a lot of us hear “libertarian” as “libert-aryan”

Crossposted from Daily Kos


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  2. JanF

    I was following some of the Tweets last night but I missed that one: “Because not being allowed to own another human being is tyranny”.

    The Urban Leaguers who are inviting this guy to speak to them need a history lesson. You can’t Etch-A-Sketch away his belief about the Civil Rights Act:

    “I don’t like the idea of telling private business owners-I abhor racism. I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant-but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.”

    It may not be on his lips any longer but you can’t cleanse that out of your thought bubble … or your DNA.

  4. JanF

    Agent Double-O Soul Rides Again

    Back when the Shelby County case was handed down, and the Voting Rights Act gutted, Aqua Buddha didn’t see what all the fuss was about.


       “The interesting thing about voting patterns now is in this last election African-Americans voted at a higher percentage than whites in almost every one of the states that were under the special provisions of the federal government,” Paul said Wednesday according to WFPL’s Phillip Bailey. “So really, I don’t think there is objective evidence that we’re precluding African-Americans from voting any longer.”

    Now, almost a year closer to the Iowa caucuses, he “wants to restore a federal role for the government in the Voting Rights Act,” whatever in god’s name that means, since the Voting Rights Act is a federal law and, therefore, a “federal role for the government” in the act is rather understood. […]

    Now, we are to believe that the scales have fallen from his eyes altogether and he is now walking in spirit with John Lewis over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

  5. JanF

    (The ads there wreak havoc on my smartphone which I use to read the blogs when I am not at my work computer).

    This description of Driving While Libertarian and Driving While Black pretty much shows the awfulness of what a #RandPaulMinority has to deal with:

    DRIVING

    Rand Paul owns a very nice 2014 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, silver, with leather seats and a sunroof. Every morning he gets in his nice expensive car and drives through his nice upscale neighborhood to wherever he wants to go and never gets pulled over for anything, particularly not because a cop sees him and thinks “Libertarian? Then where did he get that nice car, HENGHHH?”

    A black man owns a very nice 2014 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, silver, with leather seats and a sunroof. Every morning he gets in his nice expensive car and drives through his nice upscale neighborhood in the direction of wherever he wants to go. Sometimes he looks in his rearview mirror and sees the lights of a police car behind him. He pulls his nice Mercedes to the side of the road. The police officer approaches, hand resting a quarter-inch from the butt of his gun.

    COP: License and registration

    BLACK MAN: What’s the problem, Officer?

    COP: License and registration.

    The black man hands over his license and registration. The cop studies both intently as if he is a rabbi poring over the Talmud.

    BLACK MAN: Was I speeding? Did I roll through a stop sign? Do I have a burned-out taillight?

    COP: Wait here please, sir.

    The cop returns to his car and gets on the radio. The black man drums his fingers, looks at the time. He’s going to be late for a meeting at the law office where he is a rising star. Finally the cop returns.

    BLACK MAN: Is there a problem? I really am late…

    COP: So you really are (Insert name) of (Insert tony address)

    BLACK MAN: Yeah, that’s right.

    COP: Excuse me?

    BLACK MAN: Yes sir.

    The cop stares at him.

    COP: Step out of the car, please.

    BLACK MAN: For what?

    COP: STEP OUT OF THE CAR, PLEASE. I WON’T TELL YOU AGAIN.

    The black man gets out of his car. The cop pats him down, asks him a bunch of questions, keeps him standing there for half an hour denying he’s a drug dealer, before sending him, humiliated, on his way.

    End scene.

  6. Diana in NoVa

    at a local fair where I was staffing the Virginia NARAL booth. I inferred that so-called Libertarians are in favor of liberty for white males, not for anyone else, and the “liberty” they crave is freedumb from paying taxes and serving in the military.

    Faugh!

    Appreciate this diary, Denise.

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