(ThyBlackMan.com) At 76 years old Ron Paul was a child, teen, young man, and full fledged adult during the time Civil Rights in America bubbled up, boiled over and exploded on to the consciouses of unsuspecting Americans who didn’t realize or didn’t care Negroes were so pressed about being treated equally: allowed to mix and mingle if they so chose, sit elsewhere than at the back of the bus, drink at the pretty water fountains where the water didn’t pour into the dirt below, and watch movies not from the balcony (even though the seats are better) but from the ground floor. Ron Paul has experienced all of that. He’s known it, he’s seen it, he’s lived it and as a man who grew up in rural Pennsylvania and then made a life in Texas it comes to me as know surprise his stance on race in America.
As a Libertarian Ron Paul is against integration because it goes against his political beliefs government should not intervene in the lives of a private citizen. He is against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he says it’s 
done nothing to improve the lives of African-Americans and instead has only over-legislated what private businesses can and cannot do as it pertains to hiring, firing and catering to people with Vitamin D rich pigment.
“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. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business’s workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge’s defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife.
Of course, America has made great strides in race relations over the past forty years. However, this progress is due to changes in public attitudes and private efforts. Relations between the races have improved despite, not because of, the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”
Paul’s position on race relations and the merits of the Civil Rights Act is further complicated by newsletters from 20 years ago which he says he did not author or edit, but published under his name. One letter in particular discusses the L.A.riots. It suggests they only ended because Black people had to pick up their welfare checks. It further suggests the NAACP tampered with the jury selection process thus preventing Blacks from serving which ultimately led to the acquittal of the police officers who were accused of beating Rodney King, the riots, and the one billion dollars in damage done to Los Angeles. This particular letter goes on to refer to Blacks as animals yet notes the difference between hoodlums and Black elites. (see pdf here and here)
Race is just one of many subjects covered in The Ron Paul Investment Letter. But because race is such an incendiary topic in the United States, these newsletters have been unearthed as the first nail to put into Ron Paul’s Presidential hopeful coffin. The only problem is these letters only say in print what others like the authors or even their publisher will say aloud before a packed audience with a microphone and podium center stage.
I find the rhetoric in Ron Paul’s newsletters equally incendiary as that of Newt Gingrich and John Boehner referring to President Obama as a food stamp President. I find the rhetoric in the Paul newsletters equally as incendiary as that of Rick Santorum saying he doesn’t want to “make “blah” people’s lives better by giving them someone else’s money.” I find the Paul newsletters as offensive as the marriage pledge some of the candidates signed in July of 2011 that suggested Black people were better off during slavery because families stayed together and babies — even if they were not the Black father’s own — were not aborted.
The articles in Ron Paul’s newsletters are racially offensive but so are a million and one other things in this world including the myriad of “Shit… …Say” videos that stereotype Black people by Black people. Nothing like a little For Us By Us homegrown hatred at worst and self deprecation and depreciation at best.
Ron Paul says do not judge him on that which he did not write and has already apologized for. Judge him by where he stands now. Okay. Fair enough. At Saturday’s ABC New Hampshire Debate George Stephanopoulos asked Paul to defend his race record. Paul threw out the typical lines of admiring Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Who doesn’t admire them save for Herman Cain nee Uncle Ruckus. But then he said this, “I am the only one up here and the only one in the Democrat party that understands true racism in this country.” We’ll get back to that statement in just a second. However, after making such a bold claim Ron Paul went on to dissect the disparities among the races when it comes to the justice system specifically the enforcement of drug laws, prosecutions and executions (Troy Davis anyone). Ron Paul also noted the injustice and disparity toward Blacks in the military. He concluded his thoughts with:
“If we truly want to be concerned about racism you ought to look at a few of those issues and look at the drug laws which are being so unfairly enforced.”
(fast forward to the 8:50 mark)
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While I’m sure Representatives John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver and James Clyburn know better the harsh realities of racism in America, I will give Ron Paul a pass on projecting his ignorant White privilege onto the issues of Blacks with whom he never had to suffer. A medically pigmented John Howard Griffin Ron Paul is not. But while I can’t get behind all of Ron Paul’s positions on race, or even an eighth of them, I can and do still respect how hard he advocates for the positions he believes in even if they are none that I could never and will never endorse myself.
At the end of the day Ron Paul is a wealthy White Man from Texas running for President to scale back government. (The ironic jokes write themselves) At the end of the day Ron Paul has lived through more eras than any other candidate, including President Obama, in American history and therefore has a distinct knowledge of what life was like during those times. Ron Paul is neither an advocate for integration or segregation. He is an advocate for the rule of law at its onset. Unfortunately for Black people that means if the Constitution were being ruled by as it were written we might possibly still be in chains, our votes unimportant, our President a treasonist in need of an immediate lynching and all of our rights nullified and voided because people we are not; only chattel of the peculiar institution.
For the sake of America and its own storied history I’m glad the Constitution is viewed by most as a living breathing document in need of the occasional alteration from its 1787 original form rather than as a rigid doctrine that must be adhered to. Thank you Ron Paul, but no thanks.
What do you think of Ron Paul’s brand of race relations and policy reforms?
Staff Writer; Nikesha Leeper
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