The Afro
Originally published May 23, 2010
by AFRO Staff
The Tea Party supported, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky has come under fire for comments he recently made about segregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.During the week of May 17, Paul questioned the federal government’s right to desegregate private businesses under the act decades ago. This had been a part of his campaign platform promoting greater restrictions on the federal government’s reach. He nevertheless later said he would have voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act.“I’m opposed to any form of governmental racism or discrimination or segregation,” he told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. But he said the question of imposing standards on private businesses was “still a valid discussion.”
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