Ron Paul's super racist newsletters (from the 80s-90s)

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Has this been posted? Holy moly

http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html

He wrote this in February 1990:


"Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day. Listen to a black radio talk show in any major city. The racial hatred makes a KKK rally look tame."
 
Should help with the base.

But seriously, this has apparently been out there for years. Hard to imagine his die hard supporters didn't already know and either approve or buy that he didn't actually write them.
 
BeachBumDeac said:
Has this been posted? Holy moly

http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html

He wrote this in February 1990:


"Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day. Listen to a black radio talk show in any major city. The racial hatred makes a KKK rally look tame."
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Wow. That's just... ugly.
 
His response is that his staffers wrote it, he disavows all that sort of talk and claims his record speaks for itself regarding those issues.
 
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His response is that his staffers wrote it, he disavows all that sort of talk and claims his record speaks for itself regarding those issues.
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The company you keep...
 
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it before, man that's some awful stuff. And yes, he should absolutely be held responsible for anything printed in his newsletter.
 
Didn't Rand Paul say some racist mumbojumbo too?

Racism is taught by the family.
 
I think it's widely accepted that Lew Rockwell wrote the newsletters. They came out while Paul was practicing medically full-time and I don't think anyone "in the know" claims Paul wrote any of it. The head of the NAACP in Texas came out supporting him in 08 when these surfaced. I find it hard to believe that would happen if there was any rumblings that he wrote any of it.

That being said, he is responsible for what was written. He should be fully accountable and there's a lot of ugly stuff in there. The fact that Rockwell still is a close friend, works in his campaign etc is not good.

This is a pretty neutral take on them:
http://reason.com/archives/2008/01/16/who-wrote-ron-pauls-newsletter
 
jhmd2000 said:
Reverend Wright
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SkinsNDeacs said:
I thought that argument did not hold water
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Yeah, I'll take Obama's books over Ron Paul's newsletters. Nice false equivocation though. Even the whitest white guy wouldn't put up what Paul said against Rev. Wright.

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"Nearly every other group but whites are allowed a certain degree of cultural autonomy. Blacks have black schools, clubs, and neighborhoods. The same is true of Hispanics. It is human nature that like attracts likes. But whites are not allowed to express this same human impulse. Except in a de facto sense, there can be no white schools, white clubs, or white neighbor hoods [sic]. The political system demands white integration, while allowing black segregation. The youth culture is already driven by ghetto music and ghetto values.... And the sexual ethics of our youth are also degenerating to the level of the ghetto."
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The historical irony of this statement is amazing.
 
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"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty, it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society.”

He also made a statement to the Dallas paper about black kids being fleet afoot after the stole one's purse.

Those were his words.
 
Not sure why Ron Paul even matters. My guess is that this story is being dug up by the heavy hitters in the Republican Party that are tired of him being a part of the picture. It is time to rally around someone, and it looks like that person is Mitt. Newt is losing steam, Ron is being trashed, and no one else seems to be able to mount any sort of challenge.
 
I wonder how Romney's refusal to put out his tax returns will play this summer. Or how his machinations to consiuder his $13M last year from Bain as "interest" rather than income will sit with middle America.
 
RJKarl said:
I wonder how Romney's refusal to put out his tax returns will play this summer. Or how his machinations to consiuder his $13M last year from Bain as "interest" rather than income will sit with middle America.
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That entire anarcho-libertarian movement nuzzles up real close with the racists and radicals (sovereign citizen and tax protester nuts).
 
ChrisL68 said:
That entire anarcho-libertarian movement nuzzles up real close with the racists and radicals (sovereign citizen and tax protester nuts).
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That is silly. Does that mean that liberal big government types nuzzle up to antisemitism because there are a few groups in that group that are fiercely anti-Semitic? Perhaps the greatest writing dismantling historical racism that I ever read was written by Ayn Rand.
 
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Didn't Rand Paul say some racist mumbojumbo too?

Racism is taught by the family.
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Other than wanting to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964....nah.
 
From the Dallas Morning News in 1996. These are QUOTES from Ron Paul:

"Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation.

Dr. Paul also took exception to the comments of Mr. Bledsoe, saying that the voters in the 14th District and the people who know him best would be the final judges of his character. “If someone challenges your character and takes the interpretation of the NAACP as proof of a man’s character, what kind of a world do you live in?” Dr. Paul asked.

In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men. “If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Dr. Paul said.

He also said the comment about black men in the nation’s capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.

Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then concluded in his column: `Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.” “These aren’t my figures,” Dr. Paul said Tuesday. “That is the assumption you can gather from” the report

You can candy coat all you like. His own words are racist.

His votes against the Civil Rights and opposition to the MLK holiday are racially tinged.
 
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