Remember the lecture ‘Professor’ Rand Paul gave at Howard University, when the Republican senator explained black history to students in the School of Business Auditorium?
Paul devoted the majority of his time on the history of the Republican as it relates to civil rights, as an alternative to discussing existing concerns in the black community—like intra-racial discrimination, children out of wedlock and education.
Some gave Paul props for being the first Republican to visit Howard in more than 20 years. Others suspected his every move.
If anything, the audience most likely agreed with Paul’s argument that “Republicans haven’t changed.”
MSNBC host Chris Hayes recently said the senator has three “white supremacist strikes” against him now after the discovery that a close aide to Paul worked as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist.
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“Strike one was in 2009 when Rand Paul’s Senate campaign spokesperson was forced to resign over a horribly racist comment and historical image of a lynching — I’m not making that up — posted by a friend of his on his MySpace wall on Martin Luther King weekend, then allowed to remain for almost two years,” Hayes said.
Strike two, Hayes added, was when Paul expressed reservations about the Civil Rights Act in an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show. (Paul later said in a statement that he supports the Civil Rights Act “because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.”)
“And now this. Southern Avenger on the Senator’s staff,” Hayes said. “Well, I’m sorry, Rand Paul. That’s three racist strikes. You’re out.”
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Howard students were not suddenly ‘enlightened’ after Paul’s Grand Old Party speech. They knew what was up all alone.
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