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Ron Paul, 1996 (via goodreasonnews)
Fucking joking. Please be joking. Please. ….I know you’re not, but I can’t…. why?!
Seriously, this is the last straw. First you’ve gotta be all “civil liberties! JK gays and women, states rights” and now you’re a racist douche.
And I just found out he was an OB/GYN. Sad news for vaginas. (via saynathespiffy)
Well, the thing is, by “sensible political opinions” Paul presumably means “agrees with my libertarian bullshit.” And if black people are less likely to agree with Ron Paul, it’s probably because he says shit like this. (via triplanetary)
More:
The Freedom Report’s online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul’s newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles “Lefty” Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that “opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions,” that “if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be,” and that black representative Barbara Jordan is “the archetypical half-educated victimologist” whose “race and sex protect her from criticism.” At the time, Paul’s campaign said that Morris had quoted the newsletter out of context. Later, in 2001, Paul would claim that someone else had written the controversial passages. (Few of the newsletters contain actual bylines.)