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Steele: Rand Paul philosophy on discrimination 'misplaced at these times'
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| News Date | Monday, May 24, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican National Chairman Michael Steel said on Sunday that Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is out of step with the rest of the country on issues of racial discrimination in private businesses or organizations.
Paul, a libertarian, ignited a political firestorm last week after saying he disagreed with the 1964 Civil Right Act's prohibition on discrimination in private business or organizations. Paul later backed away from those comments.
"I think his philosophy is misplaced in these times," said Steele, the highest-ranking African American in the GOP. "I don't think it's where the country is right now. The country litigated the issue of 'separate but equal,' the country litigated the rights of minority people in this country to access the free enterprise system in accommodations and all of that. That was crystallized in the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of '64."
"In this case, Rand Paul's philosophy got in the way of reality, and the reality of it is that was important legislation at the time, put in place important benchmarks for the progress of free people," Steele added. "I think, as [Paul] said, he stands four-square with the party on this issue, but he had a philosophical difference with the party." |
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