RON PAUL IS A RACIST?

The GOP establishment and the media have been perplexed and confounded over Dr. Ron Paul’s steadily increasing popularity. So not too long ago they resorted to pulling out a bogus charge of racism against him re: a newsletter written 20 years ago by someone else that was connected with him but of which he denies knowledge and renounces. That innuendo also died a quick death which is testimony to its spuriousness.  But I say his actions always speak louder than any words indirectly connected to him. My view on racism is simple. God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.” (Acts 17:26)

I write the following reasoned defense based on research I have done.

Interracial animosity has been responsible for much ugliness throughout our history and that of the world. The ease and frequency with which rival partisans, ever ready to score cheap political points, hurl charges of racism at one another divests the word of meaning and, in the process, threaten to marginalize the very real evils to which racial animus has far too often given rise.

Still, it is hard to see how, of all of the candidates in this race — and, for that matter, all of the politicians in Washington D.C. — Ron Paul should be on the receiving end of this allegation. If ever equality had a champion, he is it. Yet it is the only morally defensible form of equality for which he fights: equality before the law. There can be no liberty unless there is equality before the law. It is liberty and equality for all Americans that he advocates. There is nothing — not a single thing — in his quite extensive record in Congress that so much as remotely suggests otherwise. If there was, his critics would have long ago seized upon it. That they have not reveals just how flimsy is their case.

Not only, however, has he steadfastly refused to lend support to any measure that would result in treating Americans of some races differently than those belonging to other racial groups. He has just as ardently fought to insure parity of treatment of Americans of all races.

The so-called unwinnable "War on Drugs," for example, has had a devastating impact on black communities throughout the country. Crime, violence, and higher rates of incarceration for blacks are among the poisons produced by this prohibitively costly enterprise. Yet he alone among the candidates of this race demands an end to it.

His commitment to racial equality and liberty for all can also be seen in the way of his conflict with the other candidates over foreign policy. They are committed to an interventionist foreign policy that during the last decade has been falsely justified in terms of  "the War on Terror." The overwhelming majority of those who have been harmfully impacted by it are people of color, namely Muslims and others of Middle Eastern descent. He, on the other hand, opposes this interventionism. African-Americans are notably over-represented in the military as a whole. They make up 19.1 percent of the active-duty force, and a staggering 24 percent of the Army, as opposed to just 12.1 percent of the population. So they incur a proportionately higher risk through our illegal and unconstitutional wars. As President, he will see to it that we follow the Golden Rule and do unto others as we ourselves would be done by.

He would also indeed be a peculiar sort of white "racist" who advocates domestic and foreign policies that would improve the plight of untold millions of non-whites. And it is more than a bit ironic that those whose policies have proven to be, quite literally in many instances, destructive of the same number of non-whites should be the ones calling him a "racist"!

In his own words, “[r]acism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.” [Government and Racism by Ron Paul, April 18, 2007]

Feel free to forward to all carelessly uninformed lemmings of the Republican party that you know.


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The below link is to the Unabridged: Ron Paul Anti-Racist Encyclopedia. This has many links and referenced quotes. 
http://ronpaulracistimpossible.blogspot.com/

Also, here is a link to a story of when the Texas NAACP defended Ron Paul and said he is not racist.
http://www.dailypaul.com/194140/naacp-leader-clears-up-smears-on-ron-paul-embed

Here is the interview of Nelson Linder, Texas NAACP president defending Ron Paul.