“There are ten different titles to the Civil Rights Act and nine of ten deal with public institutions and one that deals with private institutions and had I been around I would have tried to modify that. ” Rand Paul to Rachel Maddow on the part of the Civil Right’s Act of 1964 he would have been against.
That quote is very clear. No Negroes allowed in hotels, restaurants, gas stations, Walmarts or McDonald’s bathrooms in the South. With big signs out front saying WHITES ONLY or NO NEGROES, or NO HOMOS for that matter.
But the story here is not the truth of the matter regarding his father / son pair of Evangelical Christian racists mouthing off on racial issues, rather it is the comment section of this video over at Mediaite.
I dare you to go read them. 100% of them at 8am with nothing other than the personal visceral racial hatred of Al Sharpton. The proof in the pudding of how the GOP sees African Americans. Sharpton: ‘Where Does Rand Paul Get Off Talking About Civil Rights?’
Mediaite of course is owned by Dan Abrams and has had an extreme partisan and negative view of MSNBC ever since they fired him. And sure Mediaite took a big turn to the right last year when they brought Right-wing showboat Noah Rothman on board, and another more recent turn to the RIght when Tommy Chistorpher was pushed out just a few weeks ago. But gosh this is beyond the pale of where their traffic has gone. In fact that comment section is full of the most obnoxious racial hatred I have ever seen in one place at one time.