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.
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.
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.
Yes, and maybe nothing Paul would have said could have changed the minds of the most of the statist-loving students he was addressing. I doubt he would have done much better with a mostly white student audience. Too many students, of whatever color, in that age group think government is for taking. But it’s still worthwhile that Paul made the attempt. It might have the first time many of those students heard someone tell them government isn’t great.
Being so brilliant and in tune with all that actually needs to be said, perhaps Artur Davis should go meet with the black groups and tell the story his way.
Frankly, I do not care what a white politician might say to a group of blacks in todays environment, if the blacks are not conservative (God love them all), all they will hear are the words, “40 acres and a mule”.
The Jim Crow laws were government attacks on liberty.
Rand Paul’s message to the dim bulbs at Howard University was casting pearls before swine.
It was the perfect example of the old maxim:
Put a teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of wine, get sewage.
Put a teaspoon of wine in a barrel of sewage, get sewage.
I caught a good part of Paul's appearance unfiltered on C-Span and thought overall it went pretty well - the "tepid" response was at least respectful for the most part and not as hostile as I had expected - Paul stood his ground when he needed and went the "did you know" route only when trying to point out information which helped substantiate his view and might have escaped some in the audience - it is possilble that even a black here or there might have missed out on a bit of material related to the topic at hand - even those with whom he did not completely agree usually thanked him for his reply - it seemed a reasonable exchange to me......
>> But his mantra that “I want a government that leaves you alone” had no chance of resonating with students who view government as a source of student loans and Pell Grants
>> I wish that Paul had understood history better himself, at least enough to know why African Americans resist a rhetorical vocabulary that depicts government as a threat to liberty.
I guess Blacks believe they’re living large in the noose of the Democrat Party.