Rand Paul has made some great strides in outreach to minority communities. In fact even harsh critics of his are having trouble staging their typical attacks when Rand Paul attacks the war on drugs and works for rehabilitation of felons.
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Rand Paul has reached out to blacks on police brutality as well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-go...b_6209856.html
I believe it's time for the grassroots to help in this effort. And the best time to do this is less than 3 weeks away. I'm talking about Martin Luther King day. Now if you are one of those that dislikes Dr. King please do so in another thread! If you do so here I will put you on ignore and if you are on my friends list I will unfriend you. I'm that serious about this. Yes I've read whatever "evidence" you have on this issue as well as the evidence on the other side to refute it, and frankly I don't give a crap what you think about that. Either we are going to work together to make real inroads in a demographic that Rand Paul is trying to reach, or we aren't. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Now here are my specific proposals. I've done liberty outreach at MLK day marches before and I was always well received. One year I passed out the Alex Jones film "The Obama Deception." This year I believe that the outreach needs to focus more on the positive than on the negative. More pro Rand and less anti Obama. Obama is on the way out anyway. Solid attacks on Hillary Clinton are welcome. I saw this posted by another black friend on Facebook.
Here are the things a believe need to be highlighted.
1) The Rand Paul / Corey Booker R.E.S.T.O.R.E act. We need a flier with both their pictures on it, a brief explanation of the act, and hotline phone numbers where people can call their congressmen and senators to support the act.
2) Police brutality/militarization. We need a flier with quotes from Rand Paul and others on the right (like Mike Huckabee) talking against police militarization. We need quotes from Rand Paul speaking against police brutality. We need to highlight people brutalized by police that aren't being covered in the media like Kelly Thomas (white homeless man beat to death by cops) or the two white women that were cavity searched on a fake marijuana stop, or the black man that got shot at point blank range in the back, or the little black girl that got shot in the face from a wrong address no knock raid, or the white boy that got shot holding a Wii controller or Miriam Carey (black woman that got shot 6 times in the back by police in D.C.). Notice that I don't know the names of most of the victims of police brutality. That's my point. The media has picked up on Mike Brown and pushed his name over and over again. Eric Garner is known slightly, but not nearly as much. I wouldn't know about Miriam Carey or Kelly Thomas if it wasn't for this forum. We need to change that. Mike Brown cannot and should not be the poster child for police brutality.
3) The war on drugs. That fits well into points 1 and 2. We also need to add what Rand and Ron have said regarding racial disparity in the war on drugs. And we should highlight the recent evidence from states that have decriminalized pot that crime has gone down and drug use has not gone up. (In fact overall drug use among teens is down). Many blacks, while unhappy about the outcome of the war on drugs, still support it because they mistakenly believe drug abuse would get worse if the drug war was ended.
4) The wars in Libya and Syria. We need to highlight the fact that troops are being sent back into Iraq largely because Hillary destabilized Libya and Syria. Yes Obama was president and could and should have stopped Hillary's misguided foreign policy, but again he's not running anymore. She is. Louis Farrakhan said of Obama's misadventure in Libya "They made our brother a murderer." We should have a flier with Farrakhan speaking this words, Obama looking said, and Hillary and Dick Cheney grinning in the background. The idea is simple. Shift the blame for Libya onto Hillary. That's the real scandal of Benghazi. It never would have happened at all but for Hillary's meddling in and destabilization of Libya.
5) Economic empowerment. We need a flier quoting Tavis Smiley being forced to admit that blacks have lost ground economically since 2008. Then when need information on real reforms Rand is proposing, like empowerment zones, to fix the problem. Some quotes from blacks in Chicago upset at the democratic leadership and open to "Tea Party" ideas might be helpful as well.
Those are my ideas. I'd like to hear other positive ones. Also I can't do this by myself. I'm not a graphic artist. I suck at photoshop. I don't have a lot of time to devote to this but I will do what I can. This project needs a website as well (maybe multiple websites?). We need to pull together the relevant YouTube videos. (Maybe burn a DVD?) We need QR scancodes to point people to the websites and videos so they can get all of this on their mobile devices. And we need to collect email addresses of black people open to hearing Rand Paul's message.
That's all I've got for now. Stay tuned. Better yet give your (positive) input!
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