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TexasTowelie

(112,111 posts)
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 11:49 PM Jul 2021

R. Paul Unleashes Racist Attack on Democrat Charles Booker by Calling Him His 'Racial Left Opponent'

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday set off racist dog whistle alarms by sending a fundraising email to supporters announcing his new 2022 Democratic challenger, Charles Booker, and describing him as his “racial left opponent.”

Booker, the former state representative who narrowly lost the Kentucky Democratic Party’s nomination in the primary to oppose Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, is Black.

The email makes clear the Paul campaign is going to make this fight about race.

“Dear _______,” the email begins, “yesterday I got an Act-Blue backed racial left opponent for my reelection.”

Senator Paul last year infamously and “single-handedly” blocked the Emmett Till anti-lynching bill, as America was strongly focused on the Black Lives Matter movement during the protests supporting George Floyd.

Read more: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/07/rand-paul-unleashes-racist-attack-on-democrat-charles-booker-by-calling-him-his-racial-left-opponent/

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R. Paul Unleashes Racist Attack on Democrat Charles Booker by Calling Him His 'Racial Left Opponent' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Welp. sheshe2 Jul 2021 #1
Meant to be "radical" ?? Reads like a SpellCheck error. nt eppur_se_muova Jul 2021 #2
Whoopsie! Just a typo. EYESORE 9001 Jul 2021 #4
Um, no. Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #5
I think it is time....... MyOwnPeace Jul 2021 #3

sheshe2

(83,739 posts)
1. Welp.
Tue Jul 6, 2021, 12:05 AM
Jul 2021

F**K Rand Paul.

I hope Charles Booker wipes the floor with him.

An aside....

Why Rand Paul's Hair Looks Like That

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's hair has been the subject of frequent speculation, but we can officially put the rumors to rest.
Paul recently confirmed to Business Insider that he cuts his own hair.

Sources close to Paul also confirm that his hair is his own, and not a hairpiece, as is often speculated.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-hair-2013-2

Um K...Sure whatever...squirrel!


EYESORE 9001

(25,927 posts)
4. Whoopsie! Just a typo.
Tue Jul 6, 2021, 06:23 AM
Jul 2021

He’ll trot out that excuse soon enough - after he’s not-so-silently dog-whistled straight into their ear-holes with his message.

Scrivener7

(50,949 posts)
5. Um, no.
Tue Jul 6, 2021, 08:01 AM
Jul 2021

I get the impulse. When we white people who are trying to work against racism see something that is so blatantly racist, our minds say, "That just can't be. They must have meant something else."

That's our own racism in action. (I'm sorry, I'm not calling you a racist. But we all have onion layers of unexamined racism that come from living in a racist society. And we need to eradicate them. I am not judging you. I have caught myself doing this "oh, he must have meant something different" thing myself.)

He didn't mean something else. It's just as disgusting and hateful as it seems to be.

He may come out and SAY he meant something else, but he didn't and all the people he is talking to will know he didn't.

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