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How to throw Rosa Parks off the bus, by John Stossel and Rand Paul

by: MinistryOfTruth

Thu May 20, 2010 at 15:03:51 PM MST

( - promoted by Fong)

STOSSEL: because private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

~snip~

(I)t should be their right to be racist.

"I want my country back"

Back to when? 1963? or 1910? or 1810?

When Rosa Parks was thrown off of a bus for refusing to sit in the back in accordance with discriminatory Jim Crow laws it helped begin the Civil Rights movement.

It was racist then, and it would still be racist now.

Except, of course, if you are a libertarian or a Republican.

   In the last 24 hours, both Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul and Fox News Corp employee John Stossel have made the case that it is OKAY to throw Rosa Parks off the bus if it is owned by a private business.

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