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Related: About this forumR. 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 Partys 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/
sheshe2
(88,690 posts)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!
eppur_se_muova
(37,893 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,691 posts)Hell trot out that excuse soon enough - after hes not-so-silently dog-whistled straight into their ear-holes with his message.
Scrivener7
(53,502 posts)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.
MyOwnPeace
(17,284 posts)for Rand Paul to have another visit from his neighbor........