I had two law school best friends.

One was a Muslim lady, from Staten Island, whose family was from Pakistan.

The other was a white dude, DJ, from Memphis,? a Libertarian who stayed wanting to sue the government. His name is Jake Bear (JB).

I got on with the libertarians because we were intellectual minorities in our academic environment. They had a critique of the government, and they tended to be really bright. And the liked me because I listened to their arguments rather than simply dissing them outright.

I fell out with JB at the end of my second year because he didn’t believe in Negro programs, which have been dismantled by the Olin Foundation and Ward Connerly over the last 10 years on the grounds that they are unconstitutional. By negro programs I mean the ones? that I have been participating in since I was 11 years old. Programs intended to expose low income high achieving and/or underrepresented youth to prep school, college, summer enrichment programs, careers, etc.

I got along with JB because of his stance on the Drug War and other policies that had materially adverse affects on people of color. He was also cute like in a Wolverine kinda way and he knew Dilla beats.

A central tenet of Libertarian thinking is that the government has no say so in the policies of private business. Libertarians are also exTREMELY deferential to states rights. EXTREMELY.

Absurd, right. Well.

Which is what Rand Paul was getting at on the Rachel Maddow show @2:00.

Much of the fear around Rand is his open association and identification with the Tea Party Movement. Which I get. However my read of that is that these folks can elect members to senate and the congress than those of us who are more radical on the left may want to consider doing the same.

LUKE, use the force. #luls.

You ask, Renina, how is this connected to dope boys? Well.

Boom.

I was talking to my brother, dig dug, reformed dope boy, married father of several little bears, who enjoys going to PTA meetings and school events in his cement and paint stained work clothes, gold fronts and corn rows. #yerp.

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Here is the rub.

Dig dug was willing to do the jail time, and NOT snitch.

This was absurd to me. Why would I want to do a stint because someone else jacked someone. I thought it was idiotic.

Dig dug’s explanation was that, he could not snitch, because he had to go back and LIVE in the hood in East Oakland, where known snitches disappear.

It is irrational and absurd, yet it is true.

While his rationale was obscured to ME, it made sense, when he put it like that.

Every social system has its rules, including dope boys, street cats and Libertarians.

While they may seem absurd on its face, when we think about the social contexts and rules, things may begin to make sense.

Peace to Gramsci and Common Sense. #ummhmm.

More on Rand Paul, President Obama, the free Market and political economy, here. Via @rafikam. Its worth your time.

Why is it so hard to accept the rules the govern other peoples worlds?

What does it mean that tea partiers are electing folks now?

Is it particularly significant?

Do you buy my dope boys and libertarians connection?