NAACP wants Rand Paul to speak

[jct74]

NAACP wants Rand Paul to speak

By LUCY MCCALMONT | 2/21/14 5:56 PM EST Updated: 2/21/14 6:56 PM EST

The NAACP has offered Republican Sen. Rand Paul the opportunity to speak to the organization, with the its interim president saying, “We’d love to have him.”

In an interview taped for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” that will air Sunday, Lorraine Miller said she was interested in hearing more about the “Economic Freedom Zones” that the Kentucky senator has pushed.

“We’d love to talk with him about it and work with him on it,” Miller said, adding that her comments amounted to an invitation to Paul to address the group.

A top Paul aide said the senator is game.

“Senator Paul is pleased to hear that the NAACP would like to work with him on reforms like economic freedom zones and he would be honored to address the organization,” Doug Stafford, a senior adviser to Paul said.

Paul announced Friday that he will be visiting Simmons College, a historically black college in his state, on Monday. He previously spoke at Howard University in Washington last spring.

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read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/naacp-rand-paul-103795.html


video here, about 10 minutes in:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?317923-1/newsmakers-lorraine-miller

 

[Petar]

Great news.

 

[torchbearer]

Hopefully we can bring the NAACP over to the liberty caucus.
We are doing well in louisiana:
[h=3]NAACP To Honor Libertarian Party of LA Chairman [/h]http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?442221-NAACP-To-Honor-Libertarian-Party-of-LA-Chairman

 

[axiomata]

Hopefully we can bring the NAACP over to the liberty caucus.
We are doing well in louisiana:
NAACP To Honor Libertarian Party of LA Chairman

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?442221-NAACP-To-Honor-Libertarian-Party-of-LA-Chairman

Need a NAACPL sub-caucus.

National Association for the Advancement of Color Peoples' Liberty.

 

[jct74]

Politico updated their story to add these 2 lines:

A top Paul aide said the senator is game.

“Senator Paul is pleased to hear that the NAACP would like to work with him on reforms like economic freedom zones and he would be honored to address the organization,” Doug Stafford, a senior adviser to Paul said.

 

[anaconda]

video here, about 10 minutes in:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?317923-1/newsmakers-lorraine-miller

Anyone figure out how to "fast forward" this particular C-Span player? I can't seem to.

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Don't do it, Rand! It's a trap - the Ron Paul emails...besides, this organization has a history of making pols look racist when they're not!

 

[Crashland]

Don't do it, Rand! It's a trap - the Ron Paul emails...besides, this organization has a history of making pols look racist when they're not!

Rand HAS to do it. If he doesn't he is a huge hypocrite. He can handle it

 

[Inkblots]

Excellent, excellent.

I'm also pleased to see Rand will be returning to Simmons College. I'm convinced that the relationship he's been building with the Rev. Dr. Cosby will prove to be very fruitful indeed. And, hey, Simmons College just received national accreditation for the first time, so congratulations are in order.

 

[RandallFan]

Tancredo spoke to the NAACP. He fit it into his platform. The only reason you wouldn't want to go is if you are pandering on affirmative action or something of that nature. Rand I guess will be talking about the war on drugs. If they boo Rand it helps Rand with GOP voters. The only thing I would not mention is the death penalty and the number of blacks because it close enough to proportional.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/07/tancredo_wins_a.html

But don't tell that to US Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, the lone GOP candidate to appear this morning at the NAACP's annual convention in Detroit.

Tancredo said he gets "insulted" every time he hears that illegal immigrants are working jobs American citizens won't take. "I've done those jobs, you've done those jobs, our kids have done those jobs," he said.

 

[FriedChicken]

I'll be nervously excited to see this.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

The end game of approaching the NAACP is to not win the black vote for liberty, which is impossible under the current circumstances, but to 'shave' enough of the vote out of the socialist column in order to win some potentially close states in 2016, particularly Virginia, Florida, NJ and so on. If Rand is ready to propose changes on the drug war and prison industrial complex, and offer a way to restore an actively social conservative bent to black voters, that (liberal) 'black leaders' conditioned them out of over the last generation, he could create enough of an electoral shift to pick the lock the Democratic side of the two party paradigm has forged to control 92+% of this community.

 

[asurfaholic]

I'll be nervously excited to see this.

I know right, me too.. Rand's plan if enacted will be a huge real boost in those areas who are at the bottom of the economic chain.

Its going to be fun to see how they react to Rand's message.

Or it could be ignored entirely and washed over.

 

[Tywysog Cymru]

Rand Paul seems to be the only major Republican with a clue.

 

[Matt Collins]

It will resonate well with those who are independent thinkers. Those who follow the group-think mentality probably won't be swayed that much by it.

 

[69360]

I'm not a fan of the naacp, but he has to do this.

 

[philipped]

The end game of approaching the NAACP is to not win the black vote for liberty, which is impossible under the current circumstances, but to 'shave' enough of the vote out of the socialist column in order to win some potentially close states in 2016, particularly Virginia, Florida, NJ and so on. If Rand is ready to propose changes on the drug war and prison industrial complex, and offer a way to restore an actively social conservative bent to black voters, that (liberal) 'black leaders' conditioned them out of over the last generation, he could create enough of an electoral shift to pick the lock the Democratic side of the two party paradigm has forged to control 92+% of this community.

This is basically my thoughts on the whole thing written by another individual.

It will resonate well with those who are independent thinkers. Those who follow the group-think mentality probably won't be swayed that much by it.

As an African-American male, this might not impress my parents, 50 year old life long Democrats, but all the people I know born after 1980...MAJOR potential.

 

[StoryTimeWithJesus]

I think it's a good idea. There are currently more black people in jail for victimless crimes that blacks go to jail for at disproportionately higher rates than whites than there were slaves at the start of the civil war. Talking about pardoning people for victimless crimes and reforming our drug laws since they are enforced disproportionately more on the basis of race than violent crimes will win over a significant number of black voters.

I work with some LP candidates in Omaha and they actually get really good results when they go door to door in black neighborhoods here.

 

[Crashland]

The disproportionate racial outcome does make this an issue of particular interest that can resonate with minority groups, but remember the racial component is not at the heart of why this change should happen. The root cause is because the status quo undermines what we really want out of the criminal justice system. We want to protect society from dangerous people. We also want to deter crime. But we also want people to be able to be rehabilitated and successfully re-integrated into free society and be able to make a life for themselves after they pay their debt to the community. That just isn't happening.

 

[Tywysog Cymru]

Every Republican besides Paul seems to think that all thy need to do is put a minority on the ticket and then they'll get all their votes.