Rand Paul: “The Hard Part Of Believing In Freedom” Is Opposing Ban On Whites-Only Lunch Counters.
ThinkProgress.ORG: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century, banning whites-only lunch counters and similar discrimination in hiring, promotions, hotels and restaurants. Yet, in a recent editorial board interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal, GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul explained why he believes that this landmark law should not apply to private business owners. [ READ MORE ]
Paul is also against the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Departments of Agriculture and Education. Wants them abolished!
Joan Walsh Writes at salon.com: Rachel Maddow demolishes Rand Paul — The Tea Party favorite says he’d have marched with Martin Luther King Jr., but he opposes the law that forced businesses to serve him Video. [ READ MORE ]
Looks like the extreme crazies have taken over the Republican Party.
| By 1900, Southern laws and customs prevented African Americans from having equal access to public accommodations such as restaurants, toilets, and theaters. In some cases separate accommodations, based on local custom, also existed in the North. For example, an 1944 interview with Mary Church Terrell in the Pittsburgh Courier revealed that African Americans were allowed in to eat at public lunch counters until the end of the 19th century. She said, “I remember stopping at the drug store on the corner of 9th and F streets for service. The white clerk told me it was my last service, that the behavior of a loud Negro man there previously had caused them to alter their policy of serving colored people there.” But discrimination was far from uniform as this image suggests from 1951 of a lunch counter, located at the corner of Diamond and Wood Streets in Pittsburgh, with doors that open onto the street.
Pittsburgh Lunch Counter 1951 — With Doors That Open Onto The Street Notes: The Civil Rights Movement — Following the end of the period of Reconstruction, the United States was a segregated country. Jim Crow was the law of the land, in no place more than in the Southern states. In the south, segregation defined every aspect of the lives of African-Americans: the jobs they could take, the schools they could go to, the restaurants they could eat at, even the places they could walk. This Jim Crow system thrived well into the twentieth century, keeping generations of black Americans in an inferior social position from their white counterparts. But by the 1950′s, southern blacks and sympathetic whites had finally had enough of Jim Crow and of segregation in the United States. Quickly, a reform movement sprang up in the south, known popularly as the Civil Rights Movement. Civil rights activists wanted to do away with Jim Crow and to revolutionize the American segregationist system. In the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., they sought “a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience, and that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.” They were met with bitter and often violent adversity that to this day has not completely abated. [ READ MORE ] |
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KY Dem Nominee Jack Conway Accuses Rand Paul Of Opposing The Civil Rights Act
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Radio host Stephanie Miller talks about what Dr. Rand Paul’s win in Kentucky means for the Republican Party
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Rand Paul Taunts Obama — In an appearance on CNN’s “John King USA,” on Wednesday night Paul rejected suggestions (offered by Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine) that Kentucky GOP voters had nominated an “extreme” candidate. “What I tell to the national Democrats,” Paul told John King, “is bring it on, and please, please, please bring President Obama to Kentucky.” Paul even offered to pay for the president’s plane ticket.
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Notes: The Racist Pundits Chime in
Wha? Osama Bin O’Reilly says Obama’s “biggest defeat” last night was in Kentucky, because… Rand Paul won the GOP nomination? — Really! Kentucky The Home of Naked Racism?
Sean KLANnity says Obama’s world view seems to be “diametrically opposed” to government “of, by, and for the people“
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