Jay Smooth breaks down Rand Paul’s laughable yet frightening interview on the Rachel Maddow Show, in which he revealed that he would have opposed the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act:
Rand Paul may or may not be a racist. But he is certainly striving to make it easier for other racists to harass and discriminate against people of color. This makes him an ally to racists, whether or not he agrees with their bigoted beliefs.
The fact that he won’t straight up acknowledge this makes him, as Jay so aptly puts it, a weasel.
As Jay-Smooth says of John Mayer’s recent buffoonery:
There’s so much wrongness there, you can just swim in it.
As true as this is, Jay doesn’t want us to drown in it. Getting sucked into media soundbites about race can draw us away from the most immediate issues at hand. Jay goes on:
A lot of the most important race issues are institutional, systemic, structural issues. Questions like:
Why in 2010 do Black people not have the same educational opportunities, the same access to health care, the same economic and employment opportunities?
Why are Black people so disproportionately affected by this recession?
Why, in 2010, does it so often seem like on an institutional, systemic, structural level Black people are still disproportionately affected by almost everything thats bad?
Those questions cannot be answered by analyzing the racial awkwardness of a YouTube video. Answering those questions means figuring out how we can change public policy and pressuring the government from inside and outside to make those changes.
Damn. Who wants to listen to John Mayer, anyway, when you can watch Jay-Smooth spit the truth? Check him out at his new site, Nil Doctrine.
