Reply #102: ...

[hiphopnation]

i don't have the energy or time to play the "cite" game.

i know that these are some hard pills of truth to swallow, but you and the other paul-ites are just gonna have to hold your nose and do it. if being an apologist for a racist is so chaffing, i suggest you approach paul and ask him to start by issuing a formal apology for racially insensitive comments circulated under his name.

- he concedes that he made the comments about barbara jordan
- he concedes that he made comments about inner-city blacks (specifically in washington d.c.) but that they were "based on statistics at the time" -- like that somehow makes it ok
- any proof the staffer was fired?
- any formal apology from paul?

But it's not just these comments that raise my ire or lead me to suspect that paul is a racist. It's a culmination of many things, you see. Accepting money from open neo-nazis doesn't help his case but if there is still doubt the proof is there in his voting record which has racist underpinnings, which, if you're not sensitive to issues of race, you don't even equate with being fundamentally racist in nature -- affirmative action and welfare come to mind.

so, just in case you think i'm forming my basis that the man is a racist kook on a few quotes which may or may not actually have been uttered by him, they are indeed just pieces of the larger puzzle.