At 76 years old Ron Paul was a child, teen, young man, and full fledged adult during the time Civil Rights in America bubbled up, boiled over and exploded on to the consciouses of unsuspecting Americans who didn’t realize or didn’t care Negroes were so pressed about being treated equally: allowed to mix and mingle if they so chose, sit elsewhere than at the back of the bus, drink at the pretty water fountains where the water didn’t pour into the dirt below, and watch movies not from the balcony (even though the seats are better) but from the ground floor. Ron Paul has experienced all of that. He’s known it, he’s seen it, he’s lived it and as a man who grew up in rural Pennsylvania and then made a life in Texas it comes to me as know surprise his stance on race in America.
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I’m all Cain’d out after I upset a few conservative souls over the Ginger White post. But if you’re looking for a little more I wrote a comparison piece between Herman Cain and Uncle Ruckus of Boondocks fame for The Urban Politico; of which I am a member. Here’s a little taste:
If making money was the goal of a Black man in the 1960′s then he can only thank the Civil Rights Movement for allowing him to make more than a sharecropper’s wage. Cain doesn’t thank anyone but himself because he truly believes everything he earned he got on his own possibly even his own birth.
Instead of Cain distantly embracing a movement that has obviously helped earn him the status he has now, he acts as if it never existed even though he at one point considered being a part of it.
His blatant disregard for the social change that allowed him to change his life aligns him more closely with an ignant nigga cartoon character throwing bricks at “Martin Luther so-called Kang” then any other Black Republican who while conservative can acknowledge the impact of Dr. King’s legacy and that race relations have improved.
For more head to The Urban Politico
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