Posted on 04/11/2013 2:09:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
'We'll have to see what the Howard students thought,' Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul shouted from an elevator Wednesday afternoon, answering MailOnline's question about whether his foray into winning the hearts and minds of black youths was successful.
Paul, a Republican darling who is already laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential run with a coming appearance in New Hampshire, had just wrapped up a two-hour appearance at the Howard University School of Business.
Howard is among the U.S. colleges classified as 'historically black,' and the audience of approximately 300 included few white faces apart from those belonging to reporters.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
'Some have said that I’m either brave or crazy to be here today,' Paul told the students, acknowledging the seeming incongruity of a Republican competing openly for the support of young African-Americans.
'I’ve never been one to watch the world go by without participating. I wake up each day hoping to make a difference,' he said.
Brian Menifee, a Howard student, unfurled a banner in the middle of Paul's remarks that indicated how much of an uphill climb Republicans have in front of them.
'Howard University Doesn't Support White Supremacy,' the banner read, a picture of which was taken outside by a Huffington Post reporter.
Campus police tackled him and released him outside the building, but the audience heard him shouting 'Yo, get the f--- off of me!' as he was led away.
Manifee said after the event that police 'threw me to the ground.'
'I wasn't saying that Paul is a white supremacist,' he told MailOnline. 'But he's the product of white privilege, so take that for whatever you think it means. It takes some real you-know-what for a white Republican to come here and speak.'(continued)
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Well Well.. that must have got them sucking their teeth..
elbow bumps, raised eyebrows and accusations of being uppity..
The KKK were totally democrats and still are.. the pregnant fact that stinks like a RAP artist attempting to sing..
RE: Brian and those like him....Pure hatred. It is a shame so many are brainwashed.
'I’ve never been one to watch the world go by without participating. I wake up each day hoping to make a difference,' he said.
It's too soon to say whether he's making a difference, but he's definitely making a name for himself by standing up and speaking the truth.
I like Rand, but I don’t think drudging up history is the way to go....political parties change over time. Better to focus on why the Democratic party of today is screwing over black people (unless you are connected with the party bigwigs).
The latter two were. MLK, Sr. was a Democrat from 1960 onwards (and campaigned for the racist Jimmy Carter). Jr. MAY have only voted GOP once in 1956 (he didn’t in ‘60, and called Goldwater a “tool” of Southern racists in ‘64). The oft-cited article about him being a Republican was debunked many, many times.
The democratic party has always sought to tie the fate of black Americans around their waist. In the immediate post civil war era, the southern democrats used terror and violence to coerce recently freed blacks to vote for Democratic party candidates in order to prevent the newly freed men from ever truly becoming free. Today, they use fear, psychology, and money to ensure that black voters never truly become free. In days past they held a whip over your head. Today, they hold a government check over your head. The effect is essentially the same-servitude. You will never truly be free so long as you remain tied around the waist of the Democratic party. Republicans offer you policies that create jobs. Jobs lead to earned income and economic freedom and prosperity. The democratic party offers you government handouts which leads to chains around your necks.
The “ideological” change claimed is pure crap. I’ve seen the argument made by moonbats that the Republicans were the “liberal” party and the Democrats “Conservative.” There were different ideological factions in the parties from jump street. Some of your more infamous Southern racist Democrats were left-wingers (such as Pitchfork Ben Tillman and Theodore Bilbo, not to mention Woodrow Wilson) and the party was effectively captured by the left in 1896. Conversely, the Republicans had scores of Conservatives supportive of Civil Rights (even a prominent Conservative GOP Congressman from Tennessee, who served a stint as RNC Chairman in the 1940s, was pro-Civil Rights in opposition to the likes of Albert Gore, Sr.).
This revisionist history crap has GOT to stop. Even the usage of the “Southern Strategy”, which was not about getting the racist White Democrat pols into the GOP, but about marginalizing the George Wallace types. The Democrats themselves owned the Southern vote (of the most virulent sort) from Reconstruction until virtually 1980, with remnants of it in 1992 & 1996, yet they are not called to account for what it entailed.
Connecting the dots is important, including letting Black voters know they’ve been pawns of the Democrat establishment going back to the 1930s, and especially since the 1960s.
General Colin Powell is still supposedly a Republican, yet he endorsed, campaigned and voted for Mr. Obama, twice.
He can call himself a ballet dancer, but he’s been a voting Democrat since 2008.
And almost everytime you point those things out to blacks, especially those who consider themselves “educated” on these kinds of things, they will always counter with how many of the former Dixiecrats became Republicans....You cannot convince them otherwise, it is a waste of time upfront.
Where you can score points is by talking about how today’s Democratic is operating, then you can open up their minds a bit more, where then you can throw in the party history without them dismissing it out of hand...At least, that has been my experience.
Besides back in the 50s, a Texas Democrat was likely to be way more conservative than a northeastern Republican. It was only in the 60s, with Goldwater, and the subsequent radicalization of the Democratic Party, that both parties really split off into separate Conservative vs Liberal camps.
I don’t believe telling the truth is a waste of time. Older, vastly ignorant and indoctrinated folks might be, but I believe in aggressively challenging them... and they MUST be challenged. Reaching out to the younger crowd is even more important before their minds are poisoned with hate and lies from the left.
Some Republicans think we should apologize or atone for non-existent sins (some claiming we weren’t on the side of Civil Rights, an outrageous falsehood). The only thing the Republicans are guilty of since the 1960s is utter and complete failure to counter the lies and writing Blacks (both voters and candidates) off. Doing that makes it little surprise when they give their support to the opposition.
The Republican party of Texas was founded by free blacks in the 1800s.
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