Posted on 04/13/2013 10:21:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I would make this statement after watching his speech. If he just affected ten students watching the speech...then it was worth it. He is challenging them to think outside the box, and it’s going to be hard to beat his logic. If you are in college....you need a real job to pay off the real stupid loan you took to be there. Any hope of the government getting you that job is not realistic. Maybe they will think about his words.
I commend Paul for the effort and I think he was sincere, but it was a miss.
I watched Rand Paul’s speech and the Q&A after. I thought that he was pretty well received given the situation and he handled the questions pretty well. At least he is trying and if he keeps it up he may well get a few young blacks to vote for him in 2016. Especially if the choice is Rand Paul or Hildebeast.
I have always been puzzled as to why blacks vote well over 90% Democrat.
Blacks are taken for granted by one party, and outreach by the GOP has been tepid, precisely because we all know that blacks will vote 90+% Democrat.
I applaud Rand Paul for going to Howard, and challenging some of the conventional thinking of these students. One key unspoken unwritten rule is that these black students will vote Democrat 90+% of the time. They vote for Democrats without thinking.
And how many know that the KKK and the segregationist politicos of the past were largely Democrats? How many of today’s young people, not just young black people, know the true history???
maybe the writer ought to help Rand write his next speech and himself become part of the solution instead of part of the problem
It’s real easy for this guy to sit behind his computer and criticize. If he thinks he could do better, why doesn’t he?
I watched the video and was impressed at how well he handled himself. I don’t have a television and I had never seen/heard him in action. So at least one person was positively affected.
Answer: They are the party that is transferring money from white taxpayers to blacks. They are the party that gives federal and state job preferences to less qualified blacks. They are the party that will place a less qualified black in a college classroom over a competent white.
I think Artur Davis is the black state legislator that switched from Dem to Rep and gave a really good speech at the RNC convention. I was hoping we would hear more from him. Perhaps he should try getting in to give those speeches?
The GOP seems to be too concerned with keeping up the losers side in the march toward a strange combination of communism and crony capitalism.
...the senator unwisely choosing a did you know riff that assumed his audiences ignorance about certain historical points of reference, while he blanked on the name of Edward Brooke, a Republican who happened to be the only black man in the 20th Century who won a Senate election; and Pauls tortured effort to contextualize his criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights Act... Assuming that Paul had a nobler goal, that of actually winning converts among Republicans single hardest to crack demographic, African Americans under 29, I would still call it a missed chance, from his perspective as well as theirs, and a reminder of why the gap between blacks and the political right is such a chasm... The men and women who heard Paul could have used a primer not on 19th century history or even pre-Voting Rights Act Dixiecrats, but on the GOPs contemporary pattern of electing blacks, Latinos, and East Asian Indians to governorships or Senate seats. It would have been worthwhile to tell the many southern born black kids at Howard that it is Republicans who put a black man in Strom Thurmonds old seat... to push his audience on why poverty and inadequately funded black school districts stayed so persistent during the decades of Democratic legislative rule in the South, a run that in the states many of Howards students return home to every summer, just ended in the last six years... points for having the guts to denounce the comparison between voter ID laws and the cruelest tactics of the segregation era. But I wish he had made an additional point that a roomful of young black adults would have understood well: black people trying to navigate the modern commercial world without an ID face a lot more hurt and inconvenience than missing an election, and that pushing them to get the license or ID photo that makes them more functional strengthens a community instead of suppressing it... Howards undergraduates know... of segregationists trying to twist the constitution into a line of defense for Jim Crow. Paul would have done well to blast that misuse of the concept of liberty, and to spend time explaining that he knows events have made an absurdity out of it. The admission would have separated his libertarianism from the ugliness that preceded it.
A white oerson is never going to be able to convice a black audience.
The Republicans need a black front guy, such as Dr. Carson to scream the exact same message from the rooftops over and over.
sorry for the typos...
Why should blacks vote for a Party that wants the government to leave them alone when the other Party will break any law to give them other people’s money? The reason blacks and women vote for Uncle Sugar is because they feel they cannot compete on their own.
Exactly. Keep going back.
My only thought is Stop bringing up the 60’s It’s total past tense damn people it’s 2013 you have a Black Prez get over it!
Government countinues the Racial Agenda when they want to know what everyone’s race is! When we all just become Americans and not what breed we are thats when racisim will die!
However that said Government does not want it to die!
I would imagine in the dog world because of humans the
Pit Bull has a bad image! But Dogs Say were just all dogs!
Give Rand an A simply for trying to change the unbalanced dynamics of the far left bias AND to Howard University, standing shoulders over the Liberal Universities and colleges that refuse to listen to any conservative view.
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