After listening to Sirius radio yesterday and hearing numerous “educated” discussions regarding Rand Paul’s alleged racism I had to make a donation to the man’s Senate campaign. I hope most people understand that the civil rights movement of the 1960’s in the United States would have eventually had the same result without the heavy handed federal intrusion into personal freedoms.
If a business owner wants to run a race based business that is his or her choice in a free society. Every other free human can then choose how they want to react by either patronizing or protesting or ignoring the new establishment. You don’t need people with guns and batons to enforce basic racial harmony in most segments of the United States today. It is pretty well ingrained. Rand Paul isn’t arguing in favor of racism, he’s arguing in favor of allowing people to steer their own ship. If they are dumb enough to steer it into a reef, that’s their issue to deal with. Of course, many people would just be more comfortable pushing racism back under the surface where it hides under our current political climate. Personally, I would rather have it out in the open where it is easy to see and punish. Rand Paul is an advocate of choice, not a racist. He deserves your support just as people in general deserve to be allowed to make bad choices so they can learn from them. The alternative is a society of lemmings dependent on overlords for their food and shelter.