The Lily-White Libertarians vs. African Americans

“The Civil Rights Acts proposed to do something that libertarian ideology insisted was impossible –expand personal freedom by expanding central government power.”

forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
"The black experience is a living reminder that government is not alone as a potential threat to personal liberty. It is possible, as in the Jim Crow South, to build a government so weak that no one’s personal liberties can be protected."

“The libertarianism Goldwater embraced had its eyes fixed firmly on Communism. In the fight against the tyranny of a totalitarian ideology, the right failed to recognize that tyranny can flourish under a weak state.”
“He had constructed a strangely circular, quasi-libertarian argument in which a right to oppress others becomes a fundamental right born of a religious imperative, protected by the First Amendment.”

— Chris Ladd
#BlackHistoryMonth
The Black Libertarian Case For The Civil Rights Act

“Lack of a moral dimension for liberty is a libertarian Achilles heel and many wind up becoming apologists for imperiling the very freedom that they promote.”

blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2014/07/shamar…
"The op-ed by @BookerRising is from July 2004 (from her old blog), when the U.S. Congress hailed the 40th anniversary of the #CivilRightsAct and. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was the lone dissenter. It remains applicable now that Rand Paul, Rep. Paul’s son is now in the U.S. Senate."

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You come here with nothing but your white skin and claims, Honey.
Where are your receipts?

Where is the evidence for your "colorblind" Scammy Davis schemes?

Bring them here.
"I picked the cotton, and I carried it to market, and I built the railroads, under someone else's whip, FOR NOTHING. FOR NOTHING."

-- James Baldwin in his 1965 debate against racist William F. Buckley at Cambridge Union.

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abhmuseum.org/how-slavery-be…
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