“I was always annoyed with it in Congress because we had an anti-war unofficial group, a few libertarian Republicans and generally the Black Caucus and others did not – they are really against war because they want all of that money to go to food stamps for people here”

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The 79-year-old Texas Congressman has a long rap sheet of spewing—and supporting–white supremacist rhetoric. In the 1990s, a collection of published articles titled the “Ron Paul Political Report” were filled blatant racial stereotypes and rants against Blacks and other minority groups in the U.S. One of Paul’s newsletters from June 1992 featured content that gave commentary on the riots that took place in Los Angeles that same year, showed that “order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the Blacks to pick up their welfare checks.” This is the same publication that depicted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a “pro-Communist philanderer.”

There’s much more material that can be shared from Paul’s newsletters that would lead most people to believe that what Paul himself is a white supremacist. Based on the small sample of information that you’ve read thus far, it’s clear that Ron Paul has no issue with the system of white supremacy that subjugates Melanoid people on a large scale. What is more alarming is that Ron Paul has often been portrayed as a poster boy for the anti-establishment, based on some of his political ideologies that are deemed radical by his conservative peers, although Paul’s white supremacist ideologies are in lock step with the ideas of those in the dominant society.

At this point in time, the overall collective spirt of Melanoid people has been broken to a point where we will even accept the words of a man who clearly does not have our community’s best interests at heart as the “lesser of two evils”. Perhaps it should be duly noted that we must choose our heroes wisely, because if we continue to accept individuals who seek to uphold this current system as our role models, then we must not be disappointed if the system of justice never replaces the system of white supremacy.

by B. Clark