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Larry Elder Blasts 'Odd Duck' Rand Paul For Telling Blacks Cops Are Out To Get Them
By Tony Lee, Aug. 19, 2014, Breitbart.com
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| Sen. Rand Paul Source: www.salon.com Credit: Reuters / Jason Reed |
On Tuesday's The Laura Ingraham Show, Elder, after saying that he was as libertarian as Paul but disagreed with his foreign policy views, said of Paul's recent inclusion efforts, "I get the idea of making sure the Republican party is embracing black people and trying to attract black people, and he is coming to the inner city and giving speeches to the degree that most prospective republican nominees would never do."
"I get all that, but to lend fuel to this notion that 'cops are out to get us' is undermining the very effort," Elder said, noting that after George Zimmerman was acquitted, Jesse Jackson said, "blacks are under attack."
Elder asked, "by whom?" He pointed out that there are "7,000 black homicides last year, almost all of them at the hands of another black person." He said that in Chicago, there are at least ten homicides a week – "almost all of them unsolved."
"Now, where are all the cameras? Where's Don Lemon? Where's CNN? Where's Al? Where's Jesse?" he said. "And Chicago is Obama's adopted hometown for crying out loud. That's a real issue."
In a Time op-ed last week after the Ferguson riots, Paul said that "it is almost impossible for many Americans not to feel like their government is targeting them," and "given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them."
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Larry, I missed the Rand interview and thus the context of it. However if you factor in the war on drugs I think Rand is on base with his assertion that Black people end up with charges more often than white people and that the population in jails proves it. There have got to be a lot more White drug users and dealers than Black so why are the jails full of Black people?
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