RAND PAUL TO LAUNCH AFRICAN AMERICAN OUTREACH PROJECT
You've got to be kidding me?
The Michigan Republican Party will launch its new African American Engagement Office in Detroit next month, aiming to improve on the mere two percent of the vote their presidential nominee received in the city last year. To headline this event, the party has enlisted Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) - though Paul has been an outspoken critic of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The Huffington Post reported Friday that Paul will be the star of the December 6 kickoff event. His selection, the article notes, is odd given his record on civil rights and his staunch opposition to a federal bailout of Detroit.
While Paul has since denied ever making the comments, he has repeatedly criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964?s bans on whites-only lunch counters and discrimination by private employers. "The hard part of believing in freedom," he has argued, is that it requires believing companies should be free to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation - even though he personally opposes such discrimination.
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