Rand Paul Blames the Baltimore Riots on Absentee Fathers

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/04/rand-paul-baltimore-riots-absentee-fathers

As one of a growing number of GOP 2016 wannabes, Sen. Rand Paul has tried to sell himself as the best Republican candidate to reach out to African-American voters. He's talked about the need for criminal justice reform. During the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, he called for demilitarizing police forces. 

Yet his response to the riots in Baltimore show that he has a long way to go. During an interview with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, the Kentucky senator blamed the turmoil not on the police brutality that resulted in the death of Freddie Gray, but on absentee fathers and a breakdown in families.

 "It's depressing, it's sad, it's scary. I came through the train on Baltimore last night, I'm glad the train didn't stop," Paul said, laughing at his own unfunny joke. He then pontificated of the unrest: "The thing is that really there's so many things we can talk about, it's something we talk about not in the immediate aftermath but over time: the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of sort of a moral code in our society. And this isn't just a racial thing, it goes across racial boundaries, but we do have problems in our country."

By the way, a week ago, Paul's 22-year-old son William was cited for driving while intoxicated after he was in a car crash.

well IMO he can kiss all that grandstanding going into Black venues with a message of promises he can't possibly keep he's a republican they aren't that kinda party, goodbye Black people were not fooled by the obvious fake overture of caring and reaching out while telling them he's going to kill ObamaCares leaving millions again at the mercy of ER's.  now he's blaming the kids for their laws of incarcerating and not passing jobs bills causing millions of Black fathers to be absentee or unable to support them so they rebel and the to me obvious manslaughter of Mr. Gray was not the proverbial straw that broke the back of police brutaliy.

parents and those kids afraid they might be the next week long news cycle as a statistic.  if his assumption is right then he just made every Black father of those kids responsible for Baltimore but then by virtue of that he just also accused those Black fathers nationwide because protest have broken out across the country, that is tantamount to telling those kids "it's all your dad's fault.

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