Any Tea Party victories will be short lived, you can't win elections forever by alienating minorities (liberals, racism)
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I support Rand Paul, and I'm a black female. I don't find anything 'racist' in his message and I feel anyone saying anything to the contrary is a race baiter...there will always be ignorant, reactionary people, that doesn't mean that the basic principles of limited government should feel 'alien' to a voter on account of skin color.
So your support a businesses right to deny you gas, food, bathroom or service of any kind specifically because of your race? Wow, just wow.
So your support a businesses right to deny you gas, food, bathroom or service of any kind specifically because of your race? Wow, just wow.
If I come into a restaurant smelling bad, they could deny me service, even though they don't know if I have a medical condition that causes me to overperspirate or I just felt was within my right not to shower for two days. If I'm not a patron, a business can deny me use of their bathroom, because it's patron only. My job will only employ people of my sex to do my job, and I support them. I don't see the conflict. Why when you use the word 'race' does discrimination suddenly become inflammatory and intolerable when it's only a part of our every day existence?
If I come into a restaurant smelling bad, they could deny me service, even though they don't know if I have a medical condition that causes me to overperspirate or I just felt was within my right not to shower for two days. If I'm not a patron, a business can deny me use of their bathroom, because it's patron only. My job will only employ people of my sex to do my job, and I support them. I don't see the conflict. Why when you use the word 'race' does discrimination suddenly become inflammatory and intolerable when it's only a part of our every day existence?
Because the Left and it's media puppets are succeeding in dividing us as a nation based on race. They don't just fan the flames they ignite the fire.
I support Rand Paul, and I'm a black female. I don't find anything 'racist' in his message and I feel anyone saying anything to the contrary is a race baiter...there will always be ignorant, reactionary people, that doesn't mean that the basic principles of limited government should feel 'alien' to a voter on account of skin color.
The post wasn't exclusively about Rand Paul. Do you find anything racist about someone waving a poster of Obama with a bone in his nose and a spear in his hand? How about telling Obama to go back to Africa? How about saying Obama is going to enslave Whites? How about comparing Obama to a monkey? Find any of those racist?
Under The Federal Fair Housing law, the prohibition on discriminatory advertisements applies to all situations except the following:
Shared Housing Exemption -- If you are advertising a shared housing unit, in which tenants will be sharing a bathroom, kitchen, or other common area, you may express a preference based upon sex only.
Private Club and Religious Exemptions -- A religious community or private club whose membership is not restricted based upon race, color, or national origin may restrict tenancy only to its members in a property that it owns, and may advertise to that effect.
Housing for Older Persons Exemption -- Certain complexes for elderly persons are exempt from prohibitions on familial status discrimination, including the prohibitions on discriminatory advertising.
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Actually, how it works is that you can privately "discriminate" (re: gender, race, whatever), as long as you're choosing a roommate. But you just can't state those discriminatory "preferences" publicly in your advertising.
Fair Housing and Roommates: Contesting a Presumption of Constitutionality (http://www.allbusiness.com/society-social/religion-spirituality-religion/13878228-1.html - broken link)
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Sure, I work for a private business that discriminates in a government protected category and I support their right to do so. Race is no magical hot button, it's simply another category.
It's fear mongerers who like to stir up people's emotions by projecting that if certain legislation disappeared, black people would be run out of jobs and businesses. It's not government that is responsible for social taboo, it is society. Did Don Imus get run out of his position because using the phrase "nappy headed ho's" is illegal on air? No, it's because people boycotted his show and his network, and private companies pulled their sponsorship. And his statements didn't even impact anyone economically, imagine if it was a major business doing the discrimination.
So if I understand you correctly, you're basically saying all "rights" are essentially just "relative" values (aka social taboos), always determined by "society" (BTW, whose?), and that the only enforcement (if any) should just be "the free market"? No gotchas, just curious how the idea of "rights" works for you.
If you don't notice, private businesses already do discriminate in 'government protected' categories in employment decisions, ask any heterosexual woman who has sought employment at a gay bar (as I accidentally have). Am I going to wage a frivolous lawsuit about failing to employed over my sex/orientation? I work at Hooters, we don't hire male servers. We've seen how far the EEOC got in trying to reverse that.
You bring up a ton of very good points in your posts. People are looking to the one size fits all, inefficient Federal Government for help. They love control.
The very same government that started the segregation business and practices it with gays in the military is the one we look to on this issue????????.
People don't get it. Boycotts were successfully used in the past to bring companies to their knees when there was discrimination in the past. Now it's, I'll use their product but force them to do business my way.
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