NARMER'S PLACE: Old Head White GOP Candidate Ron Paul Denies “Order Was Only Restored In L.A. When Blacks Got Their Welfare Checks” Quote From 20 Yrs Ago

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Old Head White GOP Candidate Ron Paul Denies “Order Was Only Restored In L.A. When Blacks Got Their Welfare Checks” Quote From 20 Yrs Ago

A racist GOP candidate?? Say it ain’t so!

Ron Paul reiterated Tuesday that he did not write a series of newsletters that appeared under his name in the 1980s and 1990s that included controversial comments about African-Americans, including a claim that “[o]rder was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.”
Asked by CBS News and National Journal if the newsletters are fair game on Tuesday in New Hampshire, Paul responded, “I don’t know whether fair is the right word.”
“I mean, it’s politics,” he continued. “Nobody talked about it for 20 years until they found out that the message of liberty was making progress. And everybody knows I didn’t write them, and it’s not my sentiment, so it’s sort of politics as usual.”
Writing in The New Republic in 2008, reporter James Kirchick revealed some particularly incendiary passages from the monthly newsletters, which carried names like “Ron Paul’s Freedom Report” and the “Ron Paul Political Report.” Many of the newsletters, which were mostly written in the first person and usually didn’t otherwise carry a byline, were reportedly being held in collections of extreme-right political literature.
The newsletters included a criticism of Ronald Reagan for legislation creating a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., who is described as a “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours” and “seduced underage girls and boys.”
“We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day,” one newsletter said of Reagan, according to Kirchick. The newsletters also claimed that AIDS sufferers “enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick,” expressed support for and offered advice to the “local militias now training to defend liberty” shortly before the Oklahoma City bombing, and questioned whether the 1993 World Trade Center bombing “was a setup by the Israeli Mossad.” Paul’s campaign chairman, Jesse Benton, told Hotsheet Tuesday that “We take Ron at [his] word that he did not write” the newsletters.
“So have his constituents in Texas,” Benton continued. “We do so because everything he has worked and stood for forty years stands anathema to racism. We know that Dr. Paul stands for Liberty for all Americans.” Asked if the issue was fair game, Benton responded, “He has answered questions about these newsletters for 20 years, but it is reasonable that he answer them again now.”
“We are confident that Americans will look to his vast, consistent and principled record, his life [as] a doctor, faithful husband and family man, and accept his answer,” he added.

Regardless if he wrote these newsletters himself, or not…he allowed that isht to be published and circulated under his name so it’s all the same!! SMH.
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