Rand Paul Argues GOP Case to Skeptical Students at Historically Black College

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PJMedia:

WASHINGTON – In a speech at Howard University today that touched on education, federal prison sentences, and economics, Sen. Ran Paul (R-Ky.) pitched himself and the GOP to African-American youth, giving a history lesson to students about minority rights and the Republican Party.

Paul became the first elected Republican office holder to speak on Howard University’s campus in recent years. The last Republican leader to speak at the university was former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele in 2004, and before that, Colin Powell in 1994.

 

Paul delivered his speech to a full auditorium at Howard University’s School of Business. The Kentucky Republican presented his message of freedom and economic opportunity, and shared with the audience, mainly composed of students and faculty, the importance that minority rights has held in the Republican Party throughout the nation’s history.

The senator tried to lighten the mood at the beginning of his speech by saying that he would call his trip a success if the university’s newspaper printed that “a Republican came to Howard but he came in peace.”