In case you’ve been living on the dark side of the moon for the past week and don’t know who Rand Paul is, you soon will. And you most certainly should. Last Tuesday, Rand Paul won the Republican primary for Kentucky’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, and the right to run against the Democratic candidate in the fall. Sounds normal so far, huh? Well, on last Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”, Paul oddly admitted that not only does he not support the Americans with Disabilities Act, but he also does not support Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which “prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” So in other words, Paul believes that if a black family goes to a restaurant that wants to operate as a “whites-only” establishment, the owner should have the right to deny that black family from entering the restaurant and the government should mind their own business and not interfere. Interesting!
These are the basic fundamentals of Libertarianism, of which both Ron and Rand Paul boldly embrace. Because in Rand Paul’s world, not only can Woolworth’s prevent black people from sitting at its lunch counter if it wants to (circa 1960), but a private police corporation can set up shop in a community, buy up any competing police corporations and announce that it no longer serves black people or Jewish people or Hispanic people or gay people or any minority segment of the population it wants. Or a private education franchise can choose to turn away all non-white students, basically excluding minorities from receiving an education. Paul promotes a throwback to 1955 and the pre-civil rights era, which would basically erase all the hard work of Dr. Martin Luther King and the lives lost of all the civil rights pioneers.
So CONGRATULATIONS! are in order for the Republican Party. The man you chose to run for the vacant U.S. Senate seat from Kentucky and the man who delivered the highest profile political victory for the tea party movement, has turned out to be a civil rights and racial maniac. Now let’s see how many of you actually support your candidate in the general election this fall, or find it necessary to cut and run from him as quickly and as far away as possible. Your move!
Ever since the whole Tea Party idea came up there's been rumblings it was a front for racism. They tried for a long time to deny it but now this Rand Paul thing proves it. If thats the candidate they chose and he won, they just played their entire hand. For somebody to want to turn back the entire civil rights movement like it never happened is insane. Isn't this 2010??I hear the Republicans have told Rand Paul to stay off the television for now while they work with him on how to dodge questions in interviews. It's the same set up they did for Sarah Palin. This is just crazy and makes me angry. And the sad part is some say this guy might win in Kentucky just because that plays right into their thinking. So thank you for this story. it needs more visibility so people know whats… Read more »