Help me refute arguments that Dr. Paul is a racist

Go to the 3:36 mark and end the debate.
http://youtube.com/watch?...

that Dr. Paul tends to talk so much bigger than most people understand. You know with equal and all we are dumbed down! As a people most have a hard time understanding his message ( I do think this was one of his stumbling points) I had the patience to listen to him over and over ( I really had to - most do not) his message was so over my head.

We are use to Government taking care of us, you have to step back to see that a Rose garden is fertilized with SHIT.

I am not saying he is racist, but most of the people who are recieving all of the suppliments AMERICA has to offer are generally of a minority status. So of course of Ron Paul wants to cut those bene's he must be racist. It doesn't matter that it's our tax dollar that is paying for them.

There was a Nightline thing several years back that exposed several people who were getting the check from welfare and other supplimental income, selling drugs at the corner, doing all kinds of illegal things to earn incomes -- all off the books and making about 50,000 a year.

I am not racist, but I do know that we have created a system that allows muchers -- and it is colorblind! There are (to me) as many whites, blacks, hispanics, etc that do this.

I ran a toys for tots program for 20 years and we would have people sign up for toys and would show up driving excursions, expeditions and lexus. One guy showed up wearing a 300.00 pair of boots. We were appauled.

Dr. Paul is not racist. He just appreciates those who contribute to society and wants to further their benefits.

Don't ever believe a word of it.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/P...

I wouldn't worry about it. That was obviously written back in the LA riot days. Racial tensions were running a fever back then, so I'd have to excuse anyone for anything they may have said. Better to write something tacitly racist and express your free opinion, than to yank a truck driver out of his cab and crack his skull open with a brick. If you're still not satisfied, ask Rodney King what he would say about it.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard

Maybe the government will come up with some eye color quotas, blue eyes could be a minority???

This is a very good article by Ron Paul on lewrockwell.
http://www.lewrockwell.co...

http://www.lewrockwell.co...

It is impossible for Paul to be a racist, first because he is not "white", instead he is very, very very light brown with a redish tone.

here, which is something he has said he doesn't like to do. But he's not doing it in a racist way. I think he's lightend up a bit since then and wouldn't speak like this today.

the Chairman of the Austin Chapter of the NAACP said Ron Paul is not a racist.

I think when you have the NAACP on your side, you're probably able to withstand any attacks/claims of racism.

a racist? He is the only one who wants to treat every person with the same respect. Dr. Paul does not believe in groups because that divides people. There is racism in this country and in every country. If we followed the Constitution as it was written we wouldn't have this discussion. Unfortunately, the founding fathers didn't practice what they preached. That is why it is so important that we help make Dr. King's dream come true. Judging people by their skin or culture holds us ALL down. I have seen riots in other countries where the people were white so it's not a color thing it is a blatant corrupt government thing. Just my 2 cents. Peace

I am now more educated, and I like it.

Nelson Linder, Director Austin, TX NAACP says Ron Paul IS NOT racist:

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...how did the situation get that way? What is responsible for the abominable status quo, racially, in America?

Personally it's not something I think about often, because the answers are the same as for anything else: individual freedom and individual responsibility. But, if that excerpt is going to be put on the table for consideration, I'd insist that people be honest and admit that there's a lot of truth to it, and then ask *WHY* that's the case. The offense being ginned up is rooted in the notion that to *describe* the status quo is more offensive than to *cause* the status quo -- that the reporter of a crime is more offensive than the criminal.

These ideas are not terribly complicated, but they are not often spelled out for the average leftie -- at least, not in a way that they are understood.

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Once again this is the fault of Michael Nystrom.His failure to monitor this web site or allow flagging is abominable.

This has been vetted over and over. The author is simply a trouble maker and a troll.

Look at the headline - its designed to stir up trouble.

Please flag and delete this Michael and stop being a monstrous jerk earning money off the slander of Ron Pauls work.

is a diversion from real discussion.
It exists to divert attention from issues at hand, into an emotional territory.

The typical argument method for countering is to give a cursory response which belittles the position of the opponent, and then put him back on his heels with an attack on the lack of validity of the positions of his candidate.

Always be on the attack in an argument of this nature. Never let the opponent put you on the defensive.
Don't allow them to divert you into emotional territory. They can't stand on the merits of their positions on the issues, so they ALWAYS will try to push the buttons for an emotional argument. It's what they do. That is the hallmark of liberals, because they have nothing to stand on, so they MUST divert..
Don't let them do it. Keep their feet to the fire on the issues.

we shouldn't have to make excuses.

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Monday, February 25, 2008 9:43 AM
By: Ronald Kessler

Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association, describes the Democratic Party as the architect of modern day racism.

Rice, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and lawyer, says in an interview it was Republicans who pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress. Now, she says, Republicans stand for empowering blacks to help them out of poverty. In contrast, Rice says, the Democrats push to keep blacks dependent on government handouts and encourage them to see themselves as victims.

“The Democratic Party has built its power base on the backs of poor blacks, and they want to keep blacks poor, angry, and voting for Democrats,” Rice tells Newsmax. “Every election cycle they go into the black community and preach hatred against the Republican Party and get blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.”

In Rice’s view, “The Democrats fight every effort of Republicans to get blacks out of poverty because they know that once blacks become prosperous, the Democratic Party will lose its power base.”

Rice co-founded the National Black Republican Association in 2005 with the mission of returning African-Americans to their Republican Party roots. Because co-founder Andre Cadogan knew Newsmax CEO and Editor in Chief Chris Ruddy, the first meeting of the organization took place at Newsmax offices in West Palm Beach, Fla. The organization has grown from five members to over a thousand members. It publishes a quarterly glossy magazine — The Black Republican — and has a Web site: www.nbra.info.

Rice says the Democrats oppose giving blacks the opportunity to become wealthy through Social Security personal accounts and oppose efforts to reform Social Security, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because blacks on average have a five year shorter life expectancy.

Aligning themselves with special interests, Rice says the Democrats are “fighting school-choice opportunity scholarships that are designed to get black children out of failing schools, because the teacher’s unions wants to maintain control over buildings.”

Rice also cites widespread opposition by Democrats to the No Child Left Behind Act, which has lifted reading scores of black children but is reviled by teachers’ unions.

“Our philosophy in the Republican Party is to teach a person how to fish, so he can feed himself for a lifetime, whereas the Democratic Party’s philosophy is give a man a fish, so he can eat for a day,” Rice says.

Rice says most blacks are not aware that from its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, the Republican Party has been at the “forefront of the struggle for civil rights, which is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.”

It was Republicans, she notes, who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote. Republicans also pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress from the 1860s through the 1960s, Rice says.

“It was the Democrat public safety commissioner, Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned the fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators,” Rice says.

Democrat Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox “brandished an ax handle to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant,” Rice says. “Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama school house in 1963 and declared that there would be segregation forever. In 1954, it was Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus who tried to prevent the desegregation of Little Rock public schools. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who sent the troops into the South to desegregate the schools and who appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education decision.”

In contrast, the Democrats “fought to keep blacks in slavery, started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize blacks, and fought civil rights legislation,” Rice says.

“The Democratic Party is the architect of modern day racism,” Rice says. “Now they are fanning the flames of racism in order to keep blacks in economic poverty.”