Speaking at a historically black college, the GOP’s leading libertarian might have bluntly addressed his party’s recent record on race. Instead, says Jamelle Bouie, he was condescending and intellectually dishonest.
When I heard that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was speaking to students at Howard University, the historically black college in Washington, D.C., my first question was this: does Paul want to reach out to African-Americans, or does he want credit for being the kind of politician who would make that...