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Rand Paul: ‘I Don’t Think There Is Any Particular Evidence’ Of Black Voters Being Prevented From Voting
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a tea party senator with a long history of opposition to civil rights laws, told an audience in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday that there is no evidence of black voters being excluded from the franchise. According to local NPR host Phillip Bailey, Paul said that he does not believe “there is any particular evidence of polls barring African Americans from voting,” during a speech to the non-partisan Louisville Forum.
If Paul is not aware of the evidence indicating widespread efforts to prevent African Americans from voting, then he must not be looking very hard. During the 2012 election, black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to cast a ballot as white voters. In Florida, lines of up to six hours led an estimated 201,000 people to become frustrated and leave the polls. These lines existed largely because of a voter suppression bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) which reduced early voting hours in the state. After the election, top Republicans admitted that the purpose of cutting early voting was to reduce Democratic turnout. One Republican operative conceded that early voting was cut on the Sunday proceeding Election Day because “that’s a big day when the black churches organize themselves.”
Meanwhile, voter ID laws are rampant in states led by conservatives, despite the fact that these laws cannot be justified by any legitimate purpose. Although their proponents routinely claim that an ID requirement is necessary to prevent voter fraud at the polls, such fraud barely exists. According to one study, just 0.0023 percent of votes are the product of in person voter fraud. Meanwhile, even conservative estimates suggest that 2 to 3 percent of legitimate voters will turn turned away by a voter ID law — and these voters are disproportionately African American.
It is certainly true that some forms of voter suppression, such as poll taxes or sham literacy tests, are now prohibited. But lawmakers determined to keep African Americans from voting have always been highly adaptive and capable of devising new ways to suppress the vote. Indeed, President Lyndon Johnson warned that this was the case when he proposed the Voting Rights Act to a joint session of Congress — “every device of which human ingenuity is capable, has been used to deny” the right to vote, Johnson told Congress. The rise of new techniques of preventing disfavored groups from voting is not the least bit surprising in the wake of Roberts Court’s recent hostility to voting rights, which has made it far easier for voter suppression laws to go into effect.
In any event, it is not at all surprising that Paul has not taken the time to educate himself on the subject of voting rights before claiming that African American voters are not being targeted. During his initial race for the U.S. Senate, Paul admitted that he opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters. Denying African Americans’ their equal rights, Paul explained, “is the hard part about believing in freedom.”
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Rand Paul: ‘I Don’t Think There Is Any Particular Evidence’ Of Black Voters Being Prevented From Voting
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a tea party senator with a long history of opposition to civil rights laws, told an audience in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday that there is no evidence of black voters being excluded from the franchise. According to local NPR host Phillip Bailey, Paul said that he does not believe “there is any particular evidence of polls barring African Americans from voting,” during a speech to the non-partisan Louisville Forum.
If Paul is not aware of the evidence indicating widespread efforts to prevent African Americans from voting, then he must not be looking very hard. During the 2012 election, black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to cast a ballot as white voters. In Florida, lines of up to six hours led an estimated 201,000 people to become frustrated and leave the polls. These lines existed largely because of a voter suppression bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) which reduced early voting hours in the state. After the election, top Republicans admitted that the purpose of cutting early voting was to reduce Democratic turnout. One Republican operative conceded that early voting was cut on the Sunday proceeding Election Day because “that’s a big day when the black churches organize themselves.”
Meanwhile, voter ID laws are rampant in states led by conservatives, despite the fact that these laws cannot be justified by any legitimate purpose. Although their proponents routinely claim that an ID requirement is necessary to prevent voter fraud at the polls, such fraud barely exists. According to one study, just 0.0023 percent of votes are the product of in person voter fraud. Meanwhile, even conservative estimates suggest that 2 to 3 percent of legitimate voters will turn turned away by a voter ID law — and these voters are disproportionately African American.
It is certainly true that some forms of voter suppression, such as poll taxes or sham literacy tests, are now prohibited. But lawmakers determined to keep African Americans from voting have always been highly adaptive and capable of devising new ways to suppress the vote. Indeed, President Lyndon Johnson warned that this was the case when he proposed the Voting Rights Act to a joint session of Congress — “every device of which human ingenuity is capable, has been used to deny” the right to vote, Johnson told Congress. The rise of new techniques of preventing disfavored groups from voting is not the least bit surprising in the wake of Roberts Court’s recent hostility to voting rights, which has made it far easier for voter suppression laws to go into effect.
In any event, it is not at all surprising that Paul has not taken the time to educate himself on the subject of voting rights before claiming that African American voters are not being targeted. During his initial race for the U.S. Senate, Paul admitted that he opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters. Denying African Americans’ their equal rights, Paul explained, “is the hard part about believing in freedom.”
Prominent African-American Leaders Discuss Rand Paul's Outreach to Black Voters
Prominent African-American Leaders Discuss Rand Paul's Outreach to Black Voters
By PHILLIP M. BAILEY
4:29 PM WED NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Two prominent African-American leaders in Louisville want voters to pay close attention to Republican Rand Paul’s outreach to minorities as Kentucky's junior senator gears up for a possible presidential bid.
Jones and Cosby differ on dealing with Paul, but discussed ways a new black agenda can be formed as GOP lawmakers begin to discuss ways to gain support from minority communities.
Cosby says it is strategic suicide for the African-American community to support Democrats automatically.
"I don't think that we should be endorsing politicians, I think that we should have an agenda and a politician should be endorsing our agenda," he says.
Earlier this year, Paul did introduce a bipartisan measure aimed at reforming U.S. drug laws while citing racial disparities in sentencing. He has also made comments indicating support for restoring felon voting rights in the state.
Reaction to Paul's overt attempts have been somewhat mixed among local leaders and activists.
Louisville Councilwoman Attica Scott has said she is willing to have conversations with Paul about ways the federal government can help deal with the rise of the city's vacant and abandoned properties. Others such as Kentucky state Sen. Gerald Neal point to continued controversies regarding Paul and race, such as a former aide who once belonged to a neo-Confederate group.
"Republicans will very quickly tell you or black folk anyway, 'You should be a Republican. This is the party of Lincoln. This is the party that freed the slaves,'" says Jones. "And if you don't know your history and the progression of that party, then you cannot come back effectively and say to them, this isn't the same party of the 1860s."
Paul visited Cosby's west Louisville church as early as 2010, and the senator was at the city's historically black university—Simmons College of Kentucky—this year to discuss his reforms and other issues such as charter school legislation.
Cosby hasn't withheld praise for Paul, and at one point compared the senator's filibuster against the Obama administration's use of military drones to the activism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some such as civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis disagreed with that assessment, telling WFPL that Paul is no Dr. King.
But Cosby says those comments aren't meant to be an endorsement of Paul for any public office, but that he believes the Tea Party affiliated senator is catching up with black constituents.
"Rand Paul has only been in politics and public service for two years. I've been the pastor of St. Stephen Church since Abraham Lincoln was a precinct captain," he says. "If you look at any of my writings or any of my positions, or if you listen to any of my sermons these are positions that I have held before Rand Paul. It just so happens that Rand Paul, instead of me endorsing him, took some positions that affirm positions that I had. And I applauded him for doing that."
Jones called for the public dialogue after writing a column disagreeing with Cosby's assertions about the senator. He hopes the two will continue to hold these discussions in order to educate and show black leaders can disagree while forging an agenda.
Both agreed that African-Americans should be free to engage with leaders of either political party, and that Democrats are taking black voters and their interests for granted.
But Jones says he remains wary of Paul's views and controversial remarks against historic civil rights legislation.
"Overall I think Rand Paul is dangerous. The brand of libertarianism that's practiced right now by libertarian politicians is dangerous when you talk about minimal government or especially folks who talk about state’s rights," he says. "State’s rights is a code word for the old Confederacy and usually that’s coming out of someone who has a racist agenda. Now I'm not saying that Rand Paul has a racist agenda, but when I hear those code words I kind of perk up."
http://wfpl.org/post/prominent-african-american-leaders-discuss-rand-pauls-outreach-black-voters
Prominent African-American Leaders Discuss Rand Paul's Outreach to Black Voters
By PHILLIP M. BAILEY
4:29 PM WED NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Two prominent African-American leaders in Louisville want voters to pay close attention to Republican Rand Paul’s outreach to minorities as Kentucky's junior senator gears up for a possible presidential bid.
Jones and Cosby differ on dealing with Paul, but discussed ways a new black agenda can be formed as GOP lawmakers begin to discuss ways to gain support from minority communities.
Cosby says it is strategic suicide for the African-American community to support Democrats automatically.
"I don't think that we should be endorsing politicians, I think that we should have an agenda and a politician should be endorsing our agenda," he says.
Earlier this year, Paul did introduce a bipartisan measure aimed at reforming U.S. drug laws while citing racial disparities in sentencing. He has also made comments indicating support for restoring felon voting rights in the state.
Reaction to Paul's overt attempts have been somewhat mixed among local leaders and activists.
Louisville Councilwoman Attica Scott has said she is willing to have conversations with Paul about ways the federal government can help deal with the rise of the city's vacant and abandoned properties. Others such as Kentucky state Sen. Gerald Neal point to continued controversies regarding Paul and race, such as a former aide who once belonged to a neo-Confederate group.
"Republicans will very quickly tell you or black folk anyway, 'You should be a Republican. This is the party of Lincoln. This is the party that freed the slaves,'" says Jones. "And if you don't know your history and the progression of that party, then you cannot come back effectively and say to them, this isn't the same party of the 1860s."
Paul visited Cosby's west Louisville church as early as 2010, and the senator was at the city's historically black university—Simmons College of Kentucky—this year to discuss his reforms and other issues such as charter school legislation.
Cosby hasn't withheld praise for Paul, and at one point compared the senator's filibuster against the Obama administration's use of military drones to the activism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some such as civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis disagreed with that assessment, telling WFPL that Paul is no Dr. King.
But Cosby says those comments aren't meant to be an endorsement of Paul for any public office, but that he believes the Tea Party affiliated senator is catching up with black constituents.
"Rand Paul has only been in politics and public service for two years. I've been the pastor of St. Stephen Church since Abraham Lincoln was a precinct captain," he says. "If you look at any of my writings or any of my positions, or if you listen to any of my sermons these are positions that I have held before Rand Paul. It just so happens that Rand Paul, instead of me endorsing him, took some positions that affirm positions that I had. And I applauded him for doing that."
Jones called for the public dialogue after writing a column disagreeing with Cosby's assertions about the senator. He hopes the two will continue to hold these discussions in order to educate and show black leaders can disagree while forging an agenda.
Both agreed that African-Americans should be free to engage with leaders of either political party, and that Democrats are taking black voters and their interests for granted.
But Jones says he remains wary of Paul's views and controversial remarks against historic civil rights legislation.
"Overall I think Rand Paul is dangerous. The brand of libertarianism that's practiced right now by libertarian politicians is dangerous when you talk about minimal government or especially folks who talk about state’s rights," he says. "State’s rights is a code word for the old Confederacy and usually that’s coming out of someone who has a racist agenda. Now I'm not saying that Rand Paul has a racist agenda, but when I hear those code words I kind of perk up."
http://wfpl.org/post/prominent-african-american-leaders-discuss-rand-pauls-outreach-black-voters
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WASHINGTON -- The Michigan Republican Party is seeking to increase its visibility in Democratic- and minority-heavy Detroit, and last week, it brought Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to the city to open the party's African-American Engagement Office. But if anything, the launch event put into stark relief just how much work the GOP has to do, when a largely white audience turned out to hear the senator speak.
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus has said that attracting more minorities to the GOP is crucial for the party's future. He visited Michigan last month, hired radio personality Wayne Bradley to head the African-American Engagement effort in the state and launched the Michigan Black Advisory Council.
In the 2012 election, President Barack Obama earned the support of 90 percent of the black voters who turned out at the polls.
Paul initially spoke at the new African-American Engagement Office on Livernois Avenue in Detroit for about four minutes on Friday. According to the progressive site Eclectablog, "The seats in the tiny space were filled with well-dressed supporters, most of whom were African-American."
“Today’s opening of this office is the beginning of a new Republican Party,” Paul said. “This is going to be a Republican Party that is in big cities and small cities, in the countryside, in the city. It’s going to be about bringing a message that is popular no matter where you’re from, whether you're rich or poor, whether you’re black, white or brown.”
Paul then went to a larger grassroots event at the Grace Bible Chapel, where there were protesters from the civil rights group National Action Network outside. The online invitation said the event was intended to "celebrate the opening of our African-American Engagement Office in Detroit."
Tracking footage from the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, however, shows an overwhelmingly white audience ended up turning out:
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus has said that attracting more minorities to the GOP is crucial for the party's future. He visited Michigan last month, hired radio personality Wayne Bradley to head the African-American Engagement effort in the state and launched the Michigan Black Advisory Council.
In the 2012 election, President Barack Obama earned the support of 90 percent of the black voters who turned out at the polls.
Paul initially spoke at the new African-American Engagement Office on Livernois Avenue in Detroit for about four minutes on Friday. According to the progressive site Eclectablog, "The seats in the tiny space were filled with well-dressed supporters, most of whom were African-American."
“Today’s opening of this office is the beginning of a new Republican Party,” Paul said. “This is going to be a Republican Party that is in big cities and small cities, in the countryside, in the city. It’s going to be about bringing a message that is popular no matter where you’re from, whether you're rich or poor, whether you’re black, white or brown.”
Paul then went to a larger grassroots event at the Grace Bible Chapel, where there were protesters from the civil rights group National Action Network outside. The online invitation said the event was intended to "celebrate the opening of our African-American Engagement Office in Detroit."
Tracking footage from the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, however, shows an overwhelmingly white audience ended up turning out:
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Detroit is approximately 83 percent African-American.
Paul also spoke Friday at the Detroit Economic Club, where he proposed a plan to revitalize U.S. cities through the creation of "economic freedom zones," which would cut federal taxes in communities that have an unemployment rate of 12 percent or higher.
The Michigan Democratic Party rejected Paul's advice for Detroit.
"Sen. Paul was a vocal opponent of the auto rescue, which saved over a million jobs, and led the Republican effort to shut down the government, costing Michigan's economy hundreds of millions," said party spokesman Joshua Pugh. "His special interest tax handout plan is nothing new. Here in Michigan, Rick Snyder gave $1.8 billion to wealthy special interests, and paid for it with billions in devastating cuts to our local communities and public schools. It's time for our elected leaders to stop the tax giveaways, invest in communities and improve education."
Paul has been trying to do more minority outreach in recent months. In April, Paul spoke at the historically black Howard University, becoming the first Republican elected official to speak on campus in years.
Still, he continues to generate skepticism, in part due to his criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 2010, he said, "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."
On Sunday, Paul said he opposed extending long-term unemployment benefits, because doing so would be a "disservice" to workers. African-Americans have consistently had a significantly higher unemployment rate than whites.
Neither Paul nor the Michigan GOP returned a request for comment.
Paul also spoke Friday at the Detroit Economic Club, where he proposed a plan to revitalize U.S. cities through the creation of "economic freedom zones," which would cut federal taxes in communities that have an unemployment rate of 12 percent or higher.
The Michigan Democratic Party rejected Paul's advice for Detroit.
"Sen. Paul was a vocal opponent of the auto rescue, which saved over a million jobs, and led the Republican effort to shut down the government, costing Michigan's economy hundreds of millions," said party spokesman Joshua Pugh. "His special interest tax handout plan is nothing new. Here in Michigan, Rick Snyder gave $1.8 billion to wealthy special interests, and paid for it with billions in devastating cuts to our local communities and public schools. It's time for our elected leaders to stop the tax giveaways, invest in communities and improve education."
Paul has been trying to do more minority outreach in recent months. In April, Paul spoke at the historically black Howard University, becoming the first Republican elected official to speak on campus in years.
Still, he continues to generate skepticism, in part due to his criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 2010, he said, "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."
On Sunday, Paul said he opposed extending long-term unemployment benefits, because doing so would be a "disservice" to workers. African-Americans have consistently had a significantly higher unemployment rate than whites.
Neither Paul nor the Michigan GOP returned a request for comment.
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Rand Paul: GOP ambassador to black America
Chris Hayes looks at the Rand Paul’s outreach to African American voters
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Rand Paul, Courting Black Support,
Backs Changes in Voting Rights and Criminal Justice
The New York Times
By JEREMY W. PETERS
JULY 25, 2014
CINCINNATI — Senator Rand Paul on Friday declared his support for a wide range of criminal justice and voting rights reforms in his latest effort to help improve his and the Republican Party’s reputation with black voters.
Mr. Paul’s appearance at a conference of the Urban League capped a month in which the junior senator from Kentucky — a top contender for the party’s presidential nomination in 2016 — has been aggressively courting black and Democratic backing for his ideas.
He spoke indignantly of a Kentucky man imprisoned for 55 years for a marijuana offense. “You can kill someone in Kentucky and get out sooner,” he said. He quoted Malcolm X. “Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you’re a man, you take it.”
Mr. Paul sounded empathetic as he described the arrests of three young black men who he said were simply waiting for a bus. Their apparent crime, he said, was "waiting while black."
In an acknowledgment of what was perhaps the biggest cloud hanging over his visit, Mr. Paul delicately touched on the controversy over his 2010 comments in which he suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 encroached on individual liberties.
On Friday, the senator said his support for the act was unequivocal, echoing comments he has made repeatedly since 2010. And he also said he wanted to see a greater role for the federal government in enforcing a second landmark civil rights bill, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Adapt the Voting Rights Act to the barriers people face today in voting has become a contentious political question since the Supreme Court struck down a central element of the act last year and left it up to Congress to try and find a remedy.
Mr. Paul spoke not just of voting rights reform but also of criminal justice reform. While he was addressing the Urban League, his office announced that he had introduced a bill that would eliminate the disparity in sentencing law that treats the use of crack cocaine much more harshly than the use of other drugs. Crack cocaine has been more popular in black neighborhoods.
“Our nation has come a long way since the civil rights movement,” he said. “But we must realize that race still plays a role in the enforcement of the law.”
While Mr. Paul has been trying to forge deeper connections to black communities – visiting black churches, historically black colleges and universities and influential organizations like the Urban League – his challenges in overcoming perceptions about him and his party were apparent on Friday.
The seats in the hall were only about one third full while he spoke. And after he was finished, a woman circulated in the crowd passing out an op-ed article from The Cincinnati Enquirer headlined “Blacks shouldn’t be fooled by Rand Paul.”
Mr. Paul also touched on education reform and said people in poor areas needed greater school choice through vouchers. In doing so, he could not resist taking a swipe at President Obama.
“They say education is the great equalizer,” he said. “But all schools are not equal. My kids went to great public schools. I went to great public schools. The president’s kids go to great private schools.”
By JEREMY W. PETERS
JULY 25, 2014
CINCINNATI — Senator Rand Paul on Friday declared his support for a wide range of criminal justice and voting rights reforms in his latest effort to help improve his and the Republican Party’s reputation with black voters.
Mr. Paul’s appearance at a conference of the Urban League capped a month in which the junior senator from Kentucky — a top contender for the party’s presidential nomination in 2016 — has been aggressively courting black and Democratic backing for his ideas.
“Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently,
skew the application of criminal justice, he’s just not paying close
attention,” Mr. Paul said to applause.
skew the application of criminal justice, he’s just not paying close
attention,” Mr. Paul said to applause.
He spoke indignantly of a Kentucky man imprisoned for 55 years for a marijuana offense. “You can kill someone in Kentucky and get out sooner,” he said. He quoted Malcolm X. “Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you’re a man, you take it.”
Mr. Paul sounded empathetic as he described the arrests of three young black men who he said were simply waiting for a bus. Their apparent crime, he said, was "waiting while black."
In an acknowledgment of what was perhaps the biggest cloud hanging over his visit, Mr. Paul delicately touched on the controversy over his 2010 comments in which he suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 encroached on individual liberties.
On Friday, the senator said his support for the act was unequivocal, echoing comments he has made repeatedly since 2010. And he also said he wanted to see a greater role for the federal government in enforcing a second landmark civil rights bill, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
“Not only do I support the Civil Rights act and the Voting Rights Act,” he said,
“I’m a Republican who wants to restore a federal role for the government in the Voting Rights Act.”
“I’m a Republican who wants to restore a federal role for the government in the Voting Rights Act.”
Adapt the Voting Rights Act to the barriers people face today in voting has become a contentious political question since the Supreme Court struck down a central element of the act last year and left it up to Congress to try and find a remedy.
Mr. Paul spoke not just of voting rights reform but also of criminal justice reform. While he was addressing the Urban League, his office announced that he had introduced a bill that would eliminate the disparity in sentencing law that treats the use of crack cocaine much more harshly than the use of other drugs. Crack cocaine has been more popular in black neighborhoods.
“Our nation has come a long way since the civil rights movement,” he said. “But we must realize that race still plays a role in the enforcement of the law.”
While Mr. Paul has been trying to forge deeper connections to black communities – visiting black churches, historically black colleges and universities and influential organizations like the Urban League – his challenges in overcoming perceptions about him and his party were apparent on Friday.
The seats in the hall were only about one third full while he spoke. And after he was finished, a woman circulated in the crowd passing out an op-ed article from The Cincinnati Enquirer headlined “Blacks shouldn’t be fooled by Rand Paul.”
Mr. Paul also touched on education reform and said people in poor areas needed greater school choice through vouchers. In doing so, he could not resist taking a swipe at President Obama.
“They say education is the great equalizer,” he said. “But all schools are not equal. My kids went to great public schools. I went to great public schools. The president’s kids go to great private schools.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/us/rand-paul-urban-league-speech.html?_r=0
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This racial polarization with our politics is dangerous.
The Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act were passed not from altruistic means, but to pander to foreigners from countries with oil.
If you inform the government of a critical fact, as Hubbert did, moves are made discreetly behind the scenes without acknowledgement. This was one of those moves.
The Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act were passed not from altruistic means, but to pander to foreigners from countries with oil.
If you inform the government of a critical fact, as Hubbert did, moves are made discreetly behind the scenes without acknowledgement. This was one of those moves.
I don't really believe in altruism; but, care to explain, expound . . . further ???
beware of Greeks bearing gifts
I agree. One should beware of anyone bearing gifts -- especially since its just dangerous to expect anything, for free. But, I do believe in examining the wares.
Both fought for equal rights - nonviolently, one was tossed in jail courtesy of intel provided by the NSA and was not released until the 90's after sanctions and war. Apartheid did not end until the 1990's!
The other, MLK, ordeal was relatively minor and did not require sanctions or military effort. Are you telling me marches and speeches ended our Apartheid system?
The answer...
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=677677&highlight=peak+oil
They waited until some miracle technology would get them out of this mess which never happened, resulting in this last ditch effort.
The other, MLK, ordeal was relatively minor and did not require sanctions or military effort. Are you telling me marches and speeches ended our Apartheid system?
The answer...
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=677677&highlight=peak+oil
They waited until some miracle technology would get them out of this mess which never happened, resulting in this last ditch effort.
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At the Urban League, Rand Paul says he’s a minority because of the “shade of his ideology”:
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Exactly.
Let's hear him out and see where his goals and our goals can co exist.
Totally missing what being a "minority" is.
LOL...I was about to post this. Dkos had a diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...to-say-to-black-people-when-you-are-Rand-Paul
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RandPaulMinority?src=hash
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