95% of Black men are “semi-criminal” or criminal - Ron Paul
I haven’t paid a lot of attention to Ron Paul. There are many reasons for this. 1) There are only 24 hours in a day. 2) Although he sounds great on Iraq nothing else that I have heard makes any sense. Eliminate Income Tax. What? Replace it with what? Nothing. Nothing? That’s what Ron Paul has said. Eliminate Income Tax. So, I haven’t really sought out many of his opinions on other matters. Once I get to unrealistic, I move on.
I was struck by a post on Think Progress. He was waxing poetically in his political newsletter in 1992 (back in the stone ages). Where he mentions -
Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action…. Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.
If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.
I know this is kind of weird but as a Black Man, I must say that, I haven’t murdered anyone. I haven’t raped or robbed anyone. I did try to get my roommate in college to pay more than his share of the phone bill once but I don’t think that counts as a mugging or a burglary. I think to paraphrase Ron Paul, that I can safely assume that Mr. Paul is full of cow patties.
Do your research, that Newsletter was debunked a long time ago, it was not written by Paul but by employee who was quickly fired. Look at his history he has never before or after that newsletter ever made any comments even close to those.
Despite not writing this, Paul did apologize since it did come from an employee.
Paul is the GOP candidate with the strongest support from the black vote, and is the only one that addressed unfair enforcement of the law on minorities in the Morgan State Debate which no one saw cause it isn’t one of the mainstream debates. (check youtube.com)
I would like to add my disappointment in you not checking the facts on this hoary old smear. I disagree with Dr. Paul on quite a few things, but the man isn’t racist. And he isn’t wrong on the income tax either. Why is it unrealistic? I, and I believe a large portion of your readership, would appreciate a retraction and apology.
“Once I get to unrealistic, I move on.”
Eliminating the Federal personal income tax (not corporate income tax) is entirely feasible. There was a study done by Reagan administration to find out where your money goes in regards to the income tax. “The Grace Commission confirms the allegation that the income tax revenues go 100% to pay the interest on the national debt and not a single nickel of it goes to the government. Whatever government services we have, they are not being financed by the income tax.”
Ron Paul has studied economics for decades and knows his stuff. He sits in front of Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve and drills him about monetary policy. People better start listening to Paul, because this dollar crises coupled with the banking situation is a path to destruction and is going to affect YOUR wealth in a big way. Listen to Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers and above all Ron Paul.
Alex -
Thanks for your comments.
I’m not sure how this was debunked. After reading your comment I did some additional research because I really don’t want to post something that false or a lie. I’m not sure what employee you are talking about. In 1984, Ron Paul gave up his congressional seat only to return in 1997 (this is according to his web site). So, I don’t think that anyone was writing for him at the time but again, I may be wrong. Also, there is a 1996 article in the Houston Chronicle which does anything but debunk this. Paul didn’t mention any staffer. Instead, “Paul said allegations about his writings amounted to name-calling by the Democrats and that his opponents should focus instead on how to shrink government spending and reform welfare.”
If you find more information please let me know.
Johnny -
Thanks for your comments.
Please see my note to Alex with regard to the racial issue.
With regard to the income tax, I will post some of Ron Paul’s interview with Tim Russert last on today. Here’s the problem as I see it, Ron Paul wants to eliminate income tax. That’s $1.1 trillion dollars of revenue!! That’s all of the US government’s discretionary spending - military, education, highways, everything but social security and Medicare. He has yet to provide any specifics on how to make up over a trillion dollars. Where he is going to cut billions in programs to make up the short fall? Exactly, what taxes is he going to add? What would increase excise taxes and property taxes, as Ron Paul has proposed, do to the economy?
I will be posting more on this later. I do appreciate your comments.
Caldera -
You must admit that in todays environment eliminating the income tax is a radial idea. It is one that the average voter doesn’t consider to be reasonable. If you have any polling data to show that I’m wrong, I would be happy to see it.
The Cato Institute (conservative think tank) has a blog in which a post looks at Ron Paul’s proposal. Although the author is salivating while he is typing his analysis he also admits that the average American voter isn’t paying this. The author calls this a failure of the voter and not Ron Paul.
I’m not saying that Ron Paul isn’t a smart guy. I’m saying that he wants to roll the clock back to 1920 or so. We can’t go back. The country was different back then. We didn’t have turnpikes which need to be maintained. We had very high “I can’t read” rates. There was no assistance to farmers who had a flood or drought.
What Ron Paul would like to do is turn over much of the federal government to the states. This would cause some states to raise taxes in some way and other states to say forget it we can’t afford it. This would cause a huge problem in my book.
I’ll have more on this later.
Thanks for your comments.
If I were a Paulie - - I’d really want to know…
If this is reality or just a well orchestrated hit job.
The below r……
Ron Paul just had no answer on CNN’s situation room about multiple racial slurs that have been found in his newsletter.
Interesting!!
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