Posted on 10/10/2014 3:36:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Paul is the first potential 2016 contender to visit the city.
Sen. Rand Paul met with civil rights leaders Friday in Ferguson, Missouri, the city torn apart by racial unrest following the August shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. During his visit, the Republican Senator, who is seen as a likely presidential candidate, stated his concerns about long prison sentences for nonviolent crimes, the loss of voting rights for felons and military programs to give unused equipment to local police departments.
“I wanted to find out what we could do to make the situation better,” Paul said of his visit Friday.
“Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them,” Paul wrote in an opinion piece for TIME this summer....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Sad Pander Bear.
He is dead to me!
Rand needs to stay clear of that showcase of Blacks Who Hate Whites. He will not meet many allies there, but a brick might meet his windshield, when thrown by one of the ‘disinfranchised victims’. If he marches down the street yelling ‘We Are All Mike Brown”, Rand will lose a lot of support. This would be a bitter lesson in credibility for him, sort of like when Rubio got wrapped up and used by the Gang of Eight who wanted amnesty.
White, wheat or rye?
CC
Isn’t he a doctor? What’s he doing chasing ambulances?
There’s a lot more WRONG with Rand than RIGHT, but, (if forced) I’d take him over Jeb, to cite one example.
He’s an eye doctor.
You could say that about any number of people. Let’s make sure it doesn’t come to that.
Are Cruz and Paul triangulating ahead of 2016.....?
Either Paul has gone insane (very likely) or this is some clever Triangulation ploy...
Please explain what you mean by that.
Huh????
Thugs get shot by the police.
Thugs get shot by private citizens.
It’s what happens to thugs.
Hey “Black Community”: Quit Being Thugs!!!
Rand Paul actually believes this is not an astro-turfed outside operation of the usual suspects?
The nut doesn’t fall very far from the tree.
He seems to think he can make inroads to get a significant percent of the black vote.
It’s doubtful, but without open primaries, it won’t help him much in the primaries if he were to pull of that trick.
how about the criminal disparities between races.
“Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them,” Paul wrote
Lie! There are more WHITE prison inmates than Blacks.
Whites are the ones who should feel their govt is targeting them!
http://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp
Right.
Lending credence to race baiters doesn't help, Sen. Trayvon.
Lets see!
Get a job!
Don’t be a thug!
Don’t rob stores!
Don’t screw everything that spreads it’s legs!
Get a education!
Tell the white deep sh$t to mind his own race.
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