Does RAND PAUL sound 'Racist' to you:

[emilynghiem]

Rand Paul, US Senator

Dean Becker: "Here we tune into an October 2013 US Senate Panel
where the Tea Party favorite called for immediate changes to our nation's drug laws:"

"If I told you that one out of three African-American males is forbidden by law from voting, you might think I was talking about Jim Crow 50 years ago.

Yet today, a third of African-American males are still prevented from voting because of the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs has disproportionately affected young black males.

The ACLU reports that blacks are 4 to 5 times more likely to be convicted for drug possession although surveys indicate that blacks and whites use drugs at similar rates. The majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, but 3/4 of all people in prison for drug offenses are African American or Latino.

Why are the arrest rates so lopsided?

Because it is easier to go into urban areas and make arrests than suburban areas.
Arrest statistics matter when applying for federal grants.
It doesn't take much imagination to understand that it's easier to round up, arrest and convict poor kids than it is to convict rich kids."

Is this why the media keeps pushing the image of Tea Party candidates as racist and anti-poor?

So people will be so busy opposing and discrediting candidates like this, no one will notice who is really being called out here, and unite to hold them responsible: financial profiteers who benefit from the ongoing blame wars between black and white, rich and poor, used as a smoke screen.

Divide and conquer. Unite to overcome!