[cripplecreek]

Paul said he is eager to change the GOP's image among blacks by boosting education programs and changing the way courts and police handle crime in urban areas, especially drugs.

He's got a lot of good things to say but drug legalization and reducing sentences aren't going to do a damn thing for an already institutionalized population.

I know a black man who spent better than 20 years in prison on and off for dealing drugs and he told me that laws and prison aren't nearly as frightening to blacks as we think they are. This is a population that doesn't even fear death.

This is an issue that's important to me and I've been spending a lot of time meeting people from the inner city and trying to figure out how to help them off the plantation. What I'm finding is a lack of faith, a lack of hope and a false belief that government exists to help white people.

I'd be a lot more impressed to hear him speak on the need to rebuild the families and faith. Get rid of the social justice (envy) preachers and somehow manage to convince them that we do care because they're Americans.

[dfwgator]

As Richard Pryor said, “Thank God We Got Penitentiaries.”

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Hats off to you for doing what you are doing! I believe you hit it right on target, the language needs to be flipped up, I find what Rand is saying a bit naive.

[bronxville]

Well said. I was talking to a black woman at a bus stop in the bronx a few yrs ago. She was convinced that the government deliberately infiltrated black areas with drugs in an effort to destroy the strong black religious family. I thought she was crazy at the time but many weirder things have happened since then.