"Give Rand Paul some credit for attempting to do what several decades of elections have shown is a tall order: Get African-Americans to vote Republican. But in order to make his point today at Howard University, he asked the crowd to not only look past his own brief opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but to willfully ignore the fact that the law fundamentally remade American political parties to the point that they bear little resemblance to their 1950s versions."* How do Republicans court black voters? Well, according to a Rand Paul Speech at Howard University...lie to them about the GOP's history, as well as your own. He blamed Democrats for nearly every civil rights violation against black people in the United States, and seemed to forget his own brush with preserving racism. Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Desi Doyen (Green News Report), and Brad Friedman (BradBlog.com) discuss. *Read more from Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/rand_paul_tries_to_outrun_the_civil_rights_act_at_howard/ Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://bit.ly/TYTonYouTube Like Us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/tytnation Follow Us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: http://www.current.com/gettyt
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Republican Rewrites History - We're Not The Racists!
"Give Rand Paul some credit for attempting to do what several decades of elections have shown is a tall order: Get African-Americans to vote Republican. But in order to make his point today at Howard University, he asked the crowd to not only look past his own brief opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but to willfully ignore the fact that the law fundamentally remade American political parties to the point that they bear little resemblance to their 1950s versions."* How do Republicans court black voters? Well, according to a Rand Paul Speech at Howard University...lie to them about the GOP's history, as well as your own. He blamed Democrats for nearly every civil rights violation against black people in the United States, and seemed to forget his own brush with preserving racism. Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Desi Doyen (Green News Report), and Brad Friedman (BradBlog.com) discuss. *Read more from Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/rand_paul_tries_to_outrun_the_civil_rights_act_at_howard/ Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://bit.ly/TYTonYouTube Like Us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/tytnation Follow Us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: http://www.current.com/gettyt
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