Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Glenn Reynolds & Racist Culture

An actual photo of CPAC.

Rand Paul, the man who said he wouldn't let Martin Luther King be served in a Woolworth's lunch counter, has a message for the Republican Party:

“We have to welcome people of all races. We need to welcome people of all classes. We need to have people with ties and without ties, with tattoos and without tattoos; with earrings, without earrings.... We need a more diverse party. We need a party that looks like America.”

Oops - you peeked!

And they're going to do it by not seeing any of those things.

Wouldn't that make Clarence Thomas Instapundit's house slave?

Just as his fellow libertarian, Glenn Reynolds, doesn't see Anita Hill isn't an "ERRAND GIRL". (Isn't it strange how the colorblind keep saying things that can be construed as racist? It's almost like racism's in their blood,…)

Blacks can tell when BHM is over.

Glenn also has the inside scoop on Paul Ryan's detractors - See, Ryan didn't join Charles Murray in saying blacks have lower I.Q.s, he just didn't fit (here we go again) "the left's narrative". 

It comes out one way or the other.

That's probably because the left doesn't say we have lower I.Q.s. And then there's this - which sounds like somebody's upset:

"I’M READY TO RESORT TO SOME OLD-FASHIONED MACRO-AGGRESSION"

Salute the flag? Nah,...

That'll bring blacks running to the Right, for sure:

As 12 Years a Slave proved, we really enjoy seeing the remnants of slavery's overseer culture eat itself,…

 

If You Check Out, Of Course, There's Going To Be A Bill

“All These Issues Are Still With Us” says Anita Hill, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about that. Happy she said it? Depressed it's true? Keep that horrible reality in mind as I recall enduring the collective lie that has been Grrrl Power? What?

  “Dear Prudence: Mother Who Can’t Tell the Truth”

Ahh, now we're in the world I know - filled with liars and people who expect, or demand, others do so - only to destroy them if and when they're found out. That's the fun part, the destruction - did you know we're compassionate? Yeah. I can see someone eating out of a trashcan from my window and we pat ourselves on the back for being a compassionate nation. That's the thing about the West:

Everything has to be pretty - or else.

It's like we're a nation of Mean Girls, with braces, secretly punishing anyone who doesn't think weight loss is the end-all-be-all of our existence. Oh, conspiracies, cabals, plots thickening, these people are as corrupted as Satan himself but, God damn it, don't you dare let them hear it. Even when they swear they want to get out. Especially with conservatives, you've got to phrase blame so it doesn't fall on them - a group blame should correctly fall on. They can't handle it, so nothing gets done. In the meantime, they'll keep promoting ugly saviors who, they hope, can appear to thread that needle. I ain't the one.

"Why are conspiratorial beliefs dangerous? Because, as with religious faith, those beliefs aren’t benign — they influence and inform actions. Nobody simply believes something without that belief impacting the way he or she behaves."

Yesterday, I was told I'm burning bridges with online conservatives, a criticism I could hardly hear above conservative laughter because I no longer own so much as a box of matches. If I would only lie about them, they imply, they'd be generous enough to help me out. Like I'd want to be associated with anyone who'd even offer that deal. (I'm not French.) Another version of this plea is accept their truth, which - like the NewAge "your truth" - has no basis in truth. Whatever they want, they also want me to lie, to me, and that can't happen. I simply have the wrong constitution.

So, I've got murderous liars to the Left of me, and murderous liars to the Right, all demanding the only way to make good with them is to endorse their lies and I won't, don't, can't. They're all murderous liars.

The Republican Party is a racist organization. If it's not, it accepts racists in it's ranks, to such an extent, it's not worth trying to make a distinction. The Democrats are delusional, and if it's not, it accepts delusional types in it's ranks, to such an extent, it's not worth trying to make a distinction. Evil or crazy - I'm supposed to choose - and be proud I have that choice. People in other countries don't. I've been to other countries:

Their people are eating out of trashcans,….

 

There's A New Anita Hill Documentary And Just In Time

It's nice to see Clarence Thomas, who just claimed race wasn't brought up in the past (and is discussed too much today) wasn't shy about bringing it up - himself - when it came to saving his neck.

The great black conservative hero of the "colorblind",...

 

Hung (In More Ways Than One)

"[Clarence Thomas] compared milquetoast Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to an angry mob armed with firearms and strong rope.

Irony notwithstanding, it's possible that race did play a role in validating Hill's accusations. These charges had an ugly racial overtone, intended or not: the black man as sexual predator. That's how many of Thomas's colleagues and much of the nation would receive them. The people who advanced the charges and pressed the issue had to have known this. These charges were probably more believable to many people and certainly much more damaging psychologically to Thomas because of his race. Mightn't an embattled Thomas reasonably have suspected that part of the reason so many believed her and not him, part of the reason her story, tarnished by the passage of time, gained the luster of plausibility and for many the gleam of Truth, was that her account confirmed one of the most pernicious of racial stereotypes?"

- Richard Thompson Ford, writing on the Anita Hill Hearings and the possible role of the race card, for Slate.com.