RAND PAUL: Our nation has come a long way since the Civil Rights Movement. But we must realize that race still plays a role in the enforcement of the law.



Just ask Raliek, Daequon, and Wan’Tauhjs, who were just standing on a street corner when a policeman arrived and told them to move on or be arrested.



What was their crime?



I guess it was: “Waiting While Black”



The boys explained that they were waiting for a school bus to take them to their game. They were handcuffed and taken to jail.



Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice is just not paying close enough attention.



Whether you are a minority because of the color of your skin or by virtue of your political or religious persuasion, it is imperative to restrain the power of the majority, to restrain the power of government.



Patrick Henry understood this when he wrote that the Constitution was intended to restrain the government, not the people. (Excerpted from Sen. Rand Paul's address to the Urban League on July 25, 2014)