Dear Rand Paul Fans,
Thank you for pointing out that some Americans have no self-esteem. Their only sense of self-worth comes from hating someone else as much as they despise themselves. Segregation was enforced by people that television showed to be less-civilized than others. Television showed a sugar-coating of civilization that covered some really ugly behavior.
Segregationsts seem to be people who just cannot accept the American Creed that all are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Segregationists have never truly embraced the Declaration of Independence. Segregationists often wanted revenge for the humiliation that their ancestors endured in England and Europe, humiliations by the governments there that drove them, often voluntarily and often as a criminal sentence, away from their ancestral homes.
When you read Rand Paul’s transcript with Rachel Maddow as found at this website, listen for the pain that must lie in the Paul family history. This has to be the family memory that limits him to an eye-for-an-eye revenge. Instead of focusing that anger on the nation where the humiliation of European poor occurred, there seems to be displaced anger and gentrified abuse in the form of wanting segregation. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/rand_paul_telling_the_truth.html
If there is any weakness to the Golden Rule of loving one’s neighbor as much as one loves oneself, it is that we assume that people love themselves.
Someone really must not love themselves if they long for the days when poor whites could not vote because of poll taxes and literacy tests.
This is the bitter pill that has been sugar-coated by some in the Tea Party movement. As the make-up sweats off and rain washes away the bunting and the sugar swishes out of the tea cup, we are going to see more and more people who want to lead this country through fear and hatred.
The United States was founded on the concept of liberty and mutual respect.
We left a nation and a continent that ruled through fear and hatred.
Don’t bring that stuff to our shores. The United States of America has become a much better nation than that.
Don’t let the Tea Party’s sugary words leave rotten cavities in the United States’ Constitution.
*this post loosely draws upon Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma, the Declaration of Independence, the Law Code of Hammurabi, and the Book of Matthew in the Bible.
