Does Ron Paul also think the blacks should be kept in their place?
John Derbyshire notices that the views of a young William F. Buckley and libertarian Republican Ron Paul have a fair amount in common, and Andrew Sullivan seconds that observation.
I’m actually pretty certain that a young William F. Buckley would find common cause with Ron Paul on the issue of civil rights:
Mr. Speaker, I rise to explain my objection to H.Res. 676. I certainly join my colleagues in urging Americans to celebrate the progress this country has made in race relations. However, contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.
Everyone knows that black people had the liberty to do whatever they wanted. It’s not that white people didn’t want to hire blacks, admit them into schools, allow them access to public facilities, etc. It’s just that black people were happy where they were. Besides, we shouldn’t force anyone to actually acknowledge the legal equality of black people.
Oh, and I almost forgot, here is the money quote from Buckley:
It was the culmination of a weekend of demonstrations against the admission of a Negro…. [T]he nation cannot get away with feigning surprise at the fact that… the demonstration became ugly and uncontrolled. For in defiance of constitutional practice, with a total disregard of custom and tradition, the Supreme Court a year ago illegalized a whole set of deeply-rooted folkways and mores…
And here’s a good one from Ron Paul, circa 1992:
Under the headline “Terrorist Update,” Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and wrote, “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.” About blacks in Washington, D.C., Paul wrote, “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
Allow me to flood your comments with more of Paul’s wisdom on race:
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
“[Although] we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”
“We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”
“What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?”
All from the same 1992 newsletter, I believe. Quoted in http://web.archive.org/web/20070512114222/http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/96/05/23/paul.html
1. Ron Paul didn’t write that newsletter, and he’s chosen to bear the burden of it rather than publicly slamming the man who did.
2. If you really think about it, while most of the article is stereotyping Blacks in an environment where rioting is rampant, many of the claims in the article are true. Violent crime by Blacks is much more prevalent than crime by Whites, which is a sad sad fact. It has a lot to do with their culture, which has been promoted by the recording industry and the mass media to encourage drug use, violent crime, hate for others, and many other negative sentiments in the Black community.
These points are basically what Bill Cosby has been saying for a long time. Cosby was also chastised for his comments, but in the end he was right.
“1. Ron Paul didn’t write that newsletter, and he’s chosen to bear the burden of it rather than publicly slamming the man who did.”
Paul troll spotted. Even if he didn’t write it, he had it written in his name, signed off on its publication, and then said nothing by way of retraction for multiple years. If that’s not endorsement of the newsletter, I don’t know what is.
“Violent crime by Blacks is much more prevalent than crime by Whites, which is a sad sad fact.”
The only sad sad fact is that you don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation. Oh, and also that you’re a racist and a Paultard who probably thinks the gold standard is a good idea.
“It has a lot to do with their culture.”
A lot, you say? What hope have I of refuting such a precise empirical observation?
“Encourage drug use, violent crime, hate for others, and many other negative sentiments.”
Gangsta rap is the first genre to have endorsed any of the above, ever. Heavy metal, country, and god damned punk fucking rock never existed and certainly never promoted any of the above.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.