Texas congressman and GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul voted against having MLK day. In fact, he's voted against it for many years. In one of Paul's now infamous newsletters, he blames President Ronald Reagan for approving the day in the first place and calls it "Hate Whitey Day". Was Paul's vote out of hatred or for another reason?
The Root quotes Paul's newsletter as saying "Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day."
The story comes on the heels of claims that Paul sent out many newsletters that were racist and bigoted. One such newsletter contained the comment "The criminals who terrorize our cities -in riots & on every non-riot day- are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are." In December, Paul told CNN he did not write the newsletters and that they were written by between six or eight people who worked for his staff.
Ron Paul supporters suggest Paul voted against MLK day because he felt it was un-Constitutional to have taxpayer money pay for national holidays. EURWeb suggests that Ron Paul was just trying to help the recovery from his racist newsletters scandal when he claimed King was his hero this weekend during the New Hampshire Primary.
Paul finished second behind winner Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire GOP Primary. Paul is a staunch supporter of the Constitution and rarely, if ever, sways from that place. Hopefully, in the coming days, Paul or his camp will attempt to explain his actions.
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Comments: 25
You’re about 4 years behind the story sweetheart, so I wouldn’t expect Paul to focus on this in the coming days unless, of course, you wrote this in 2007. He’s explained both the voting record and the newsletters 100 times already.
I think I’ll trust the opinion of a smart black folks on the Ron Paul issue as opposed to wild insinuations by this writer…
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120110/COLUMNIST0150/301100005/DeWayne-Wickham-Paul-raises-real-racism-issue-his-rivals-won-t-touch
http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/12/24/ron-paul-no-racist-naacp-austin-president/
I am most certainly a Libertarian. Questioning a politician on his voting record is one of the most Libertarian things in the world to do. Blind support of someone is not. I happen to like Paul, except for some of his foreign policy issues. But, this in combination with other issues makes me want to examine him further. Just as the reporter did on the MLK case. I understand he says the MLK day vote was not intended to be a racist. move.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625
Second of all where is every reporter talking about the many racist statements made by every other GOP candidate, many of those statements were only contested by Ron Paul, btw he is against mlk jr day because of government forced intrusion on privite property doesn't work, also he's the candidate in all of Washington that most embodies dr king , http://thyblackman.com/2012/01/11/ron-paul-friends-of-the-black-community/
Also I'm black and I only support the constitution/bill of rights I support Dr.Ron Paul 2012!!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625
Second of all where is every reporter talking about the many racist statements made by every other GOP candidate, many of those statements were only contested by Ron Paul, btw he is against mlk jr day because of government forced intrusion on privite property doesn't work, also he's the candidate in all of Washington that most embodies dr king , http://thyblackman.com/2012/01/11/ron-paul-friends-of-the-black-community/
Also I'm black and I only support the constitution/bill of rights I support Dr.Ron Paul 2012!!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-625
Second of all where is every reporter talking about the many racist statements made by every other GOP candidate, many of those statements were only contested by Ron Paul, btw he is against mlk jr day because of government forced intrusion on privite property doesn't work, also he's the candidate in all of Washington that most embodies dr king , http://thyblackman.com/2012/01/11/ron-paul-friends-of-the-black-community/
Also I'm black and I only support the constitution/bill of rights I support Dr.Ron Paul 2012!!
Ron Paul's "Racist Writings" DEBUNKED. Real Author: James B. Powell (Revised Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_334481&feature=iv&v=h6C-mU2dVy0&src_vid=f1dhyuZdY9c
Busted! Ron Paul racist rant caught on tape! OMG! OMG!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3EADdr-5AY&feature=related