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Did Ron Paul Write Racist Letters?

Ron Paul has denied writing racist letters about blacks. I don’t blame him. The man is running for president for goodness sake. It would be quite SCARY having a sicko in office and whoever wrote this stuff is demented.

 According to CNN:

A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks — including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went “to pick up their welfare checks.”

CNN recently obtained the newsletters — written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s — after a report was published about their existence in the New Republic.

None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul’s name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.

Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told CNN the material was not written by Paul, and that he finds them “abhorrent.” CNN asked the presidential contender for a direct response. He is to appear on CNN’s “The Situation Room” Thursday afternoon around 5 p.m. ET.

“I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name,” Paul said in a written statement.

PAUSE! Wait a minute. Somebody wrote something for Ron Paul’s signature and he signed off like everything was okay? First of all, even if a staff member wrote the racist letters, the person did so only after studying Ron Paul’s personality and figuring out what it is that Ron Paul would accept. Think about it. If you are hired to write for an employer, you would only use content that you know would be acceptable by the employer. Who does Ron Paul think he’s fooling here?

Reportedly, Ron Paul called Martin Luter King a pro-Communist philanderer. And then Mr. Paul allegedly sunk to stereotyping blacks. Check this out:

One newsletter, from June 1992, right after the LA riots, says order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.

Another says, The criminals who terrorize our cities — in riots and on every non-riot day — are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to ‘fight the power,’ to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible.

In some excerpts, the reader may be led to believe the words are indeed from Paul, a resident of Lake Jackson, Texas. In the “Ron Paul Political Report” from October 1992, the writer describes carjacking as the “hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos.”

The author then offers advice from others on how to avoid being carjacked, including “an ex-cop I know,” and says, “I frankly don’t know what to make of such advice, but even in my little town of Lake Jackson, Texas, I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”

Benton says Paul never wrote those words and is “saddened” somebody took advantage of him.

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