Rand Paul on MTV for MLK day

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MTV to Air in Black and White for the First Time in Network History, Share Artist, Politician and Audience Perspectives on Race on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Published: Jan 18, 2015 3:30 p.m. ET

Through New Initiative #TheTalk, MTV to Engage its Audiences in a “Color Brave” Conversation Led by Cultural Figures Including Kendrick Lamar, Common, Big Sean, Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo, Penn Badgley, Jordin Sparks, Pete Wentz, Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. John Lewis, Sen. Cory Booker and more

NEW YORK, Jan 18, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- today announced an expansion of its Look Different anti-bias campaign called #TheTalk, a multiscreen effort to encourage its audience to have candid, confident and “color brave” conversations on race with family and friends. According to a 2014 MTV study*, 73% of Millennials believe having more open constructive conversations about bias would help people become less prejudiced.

“Millennials believe strongly in fairness, but they can also find it difficult to talk openly about race – to be not simply ‘color blind’ but ‘color brave,’” said Stephen Friedman, President of MTV. “Our audience is looking for a way to bring the national conversation on race into their homes and this campaign will give them a forum to express true color bravery.”

#TheTalk will begin at 9:00 a.m. ET/PT on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day when MTV will kick off a 12-hour period in which all programming will air in black and white for the first time in the network’s history. Every commercial block will begin with personal reflections on race from luminaries including Kendrick Lamar, Common, Big Sean, Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo, Penn Badgley, Jordin Sparks, Pete Wentz, Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. John Lewis, Sen. Cory Booker and more.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mt...-race-on-martin-luther-king-jr-day-2015-01-18
 
It's going to make him seem young and hip with the millennial generation.

-virgil
 
I haven't watched MTV since 1989 but back then it was a very powerful platform as far as social indoctrination of youth. Once music went to crap, I never watched it again.

Interesting move for junior, though. I can't see where it wouldn't be beneficial.

I think that this is the last interview that I watched on MTV. Maybe in 89 or 90 or so. Smart feller now that I think about it.

 
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On this fine Martin Luther King day, MTV tapped a number of contemporary civil rights figures to talk about the man’s legacy: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a famed civil rights leader himself. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the first black senator from New Jersey; David Oyelowo, who portrayed Dr. King in the acclaimed movie Selma; and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

“I think peace will come when those of us who have enjoyed the American Dream become aware of those who are missing out on the dream,” Paul said as part of a series of commercials for MTV’s commemorative series #TheTalk. Throughout today, they will air their programming in black and white, and run commercials with prominent African-American figures (and Rand Paul) reflecting on race in America.

Sen. Paul’s views on race are nothing new: prominently spoke out against the police militarization in Ferguson and has made reaching out to the black community a major priority during his Senate term (very, very rare for a old white dude in the GOP, though perhaps not one who’s thinking of running for president).

Watch below via MTV, which is obviously the best place to reach out to a vast racial spectrum of young people:
[video]http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1159397/the-talk-senator-rand-paul.jhtml[/video]
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#BreakTheWall #RebuildAmerica #RandPaul2016
 
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Natural Citizen said:
I haven't watched MTV since 1989 but back then it was a very powerful platform as far as social indoctrination of youth. Once music went to crap, I never watched it again.

Interesting move for junior, though. I can't see where it wouldn't be beneficial.

I think that this is the last interview that I watched on MTV. Maybe in 89 or 90 or so. Smart feller now that I think about it.
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Do they even play music anymore?:confused: I thought they went all reality tv.
 
I think it was Jane Elliot who once said that if you're talking to someone who claims to be "color blind" or who thinks others should be "color blind", you're talking to a racist.

I don't know how I feel about that, but the idea that we need MTV to start dialogues on race because of Martin Treyvon and Michael Brown is something I'm opposed to. Instead of talking about race, we need to address the appropriate way for police to respond to incidents. When is lethal force necessary? When did the shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality seep into what is now a Good Ol' Boys' Club called the Police Force?
 
I watched a couple of episode of MTV in the early 80's and didn't appreciate it then, over the years when I've noticed it on at other peoples homes I've always had a burning desire to unplug their TV..

Even if Ron Paul where airing I'd wait for the youtube so I'd know I wouldn't be nauseated by superfluous BS...

Fuck MTV and all the rest of the MSM......
 
tod evans said:
I watched a couple of episode of MTV in the early 80's and didn't appreciate it then, over the years when I've noticed it on at other peoples homes I've always had a burning desire to unplug their TV..

Even if Ron Paul where airing I'd wait for the youtube so I'd know I wouldn't be nauseated by superfluous BS...

Fuck MTV and all the rest of the MSM......
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You know, if I get through today and your post is the worst I see I will be pleasantly surprised. And no I will not say what I am expecting. Not need to jinx it.
 
MTV showing something worth watching.

(I was born in the '90s and I don't know what it was like before but now it mostly appeals to the lowest denominator in American society).
 
It's only Rand and the link took me to him reading MLK's famous 2-Americas........
 
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