Rand Paul: Louisville is Still Segregated
Rand Paul says he’s too exhausted to appear on Meet The Press tomorrow, but he’s not too exhausted to give interviews to the local Kentucky press, and he says Louisville is still segregated. Which means the Civil Rights Act didn’t work. (In Rand’s private universe, that is.)
And in the same interview, he comes out against school desegregation.
Despite the race-tinged firestorm of recent days, Paul delved into racial matters in Louisville, Kentucky’s largest city.
“Louisville still is segregated. You think? In a way? Not officially, but there still is a large degree of ethnic separation of people in Louisville,” Paul said, “The government hasn’t fixed it and as a consequence I think there are educational disparities in Louisville. busing hasn’t necessarily worked.
“But I think there are some things that could have worked. For example, I’ve talked to people in Louisville who tell me the civil rights issue of our era is school choice and education, letting kids in every part of the community decide where they want to go to school voluntarily. Let them choose to go to a school anywhere, not necessarily through forced busing but in choosing what school they go to. And that makes schools more competitive. It helps schools to be better. It helps kids of all socioecomnic and all racial backgrounds choose what edication to get.”
One thing the nomination of Rand Paul has definitely achieved — it’s showing Americans just how far out of mainstream thought libertarians are. Libertarians like Rand Paul and his father Ron are absolutists, and any form of political absolutism is profoundly anti-human. That’s why Rand Paul can say “accidents happen” about the BP disaster — because he has no empathy at all for the millions of people whose lives will be affected by it. It’s the same reason why he is an anti-abortion fanatic, despite his lip service to libertarianism — because he has no empathy for human beings. His ideology rules his world view, and human beings play a very small part in it.