Those Condemning State's Rights as "Racist" Should Read More and Talk Less

The  NPR guy who interviewed Tom Woods last week is not an anomaly. The first thing many of these MSM types think of when nullification is brought up is racism and Jim Crow. That's rather odd, given that no one is advocating nullification be used to strike down federal laws abolishing forced segregation. On the contrary, nullification would be used to abolish the failed War on Drugs, which -- in addition to sanctioning aggressive state violence -- is enforced in a ridiculously racist, anti-black manner.

Yet the race-baiters, most of whom are (of course) totally silent on the issues that actually oppress blacks, continue to throw false accusations at the state's rights movement. It's thus important to provide some historical context as well. Consider, for example, the noble history of northern citizens using state's rights to oppose slave-kidnapping.