Rand Paul makes a pilgrimage
by digby
I missed this earlier today. I can hardly believe it:
Rand Paul going to one of the top historically black colleges in the U.S. and trying to school students on who founded the NAACP?
Priceless.
Rand Paul going to one of the top historically black colleges in the U.S. and trying to make a case for his Republican Party as a historic and continuing defender of the civil rights of African-Americans?
Not boring.
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Paul, a libertarian considered a potential 2016 presidential contender, forgot the name of the first popularly elected African-American senator in the U.S., who just happened to be Howard graduate Edward Brooke, a Republican who represented Massachusetts in the 1960s and ’70s.And he drew groans and guffaws when he asked those in the crowded auditorium if they knew that black Republicans founded the NAACP in the early 1900s.
Oh my dear God. He went to Howard University and spoke to the students as if they were mentally handicapped 6 year olds? He actually thought these college students didn’t know that the NAACP was created by black Republicans? Yikes. It’s lucky he didn’t decide to tell them a nice story about a man named Abraham Lincoln.
He says he isn’t a racist and maybe that’s so. But he sure thinks black people are idiots.
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