The Trouble With Forced Integration
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Mr. Speaker, I rise to explain my objection to H.Res. 676 [hailing the 40th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act]. 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.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government unprecedented power over the hiring, employee relations, and customer service practices of every business in the country. The result was a massive violation of the rights of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of free society. The federal government has no legitimate authority to infringe on the rights of private property owners to use their property as they please and to form (or not form) contracts with terms mutually agreeable to all parties. The rights of all private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent, must be respected if we are to maintain a free society.
This expansion of federal power was based on an erroneous interpretation of the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. The framers of the Constitution intended the interstate commerce clause to create a free trade zone among the states, not to give the federal government regulatory power over every business that has any connection with interstate commerce.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife.
Of course, America has made great strides in race relations over the past forty years. However, this progress is due to changes in public attitudes and private efforts. Relations between the races have improved despite, not because of, the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, while I join the sponsors of H.Res. 676 in promoting racial harmony and individual liberty, the fact is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not accomplish these goals. Instead, this law unconstitutionally expanded federal power, thus reducing liberty. Furthermore, by prompting raced-based quotas, this law undermined efforts to achieve a color-blind society and increased racial strife. Therefore, I must oppose H.Res. 676.
July 3, 2004
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.
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Let’s look at Ron Paul’s language:
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society.”
Was the civil rights struggle of African people in the United States a movement to bring about about “racial harmony”? Not at all. The movement was about justice which is an entirely different concept. Promoting justice in an unjust society will do anything but foster “racial harmony” from the point of view of those who practice injustice.
“The rights of all private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent, must be respected if we are to maintain a free society.”
Who are these “private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent”? That’s code for white supremacists. What Ron Paul is saying is that the right of white supremacists to practice racism must be respected.
“Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty. “
Did the Civil Rights act force integration or did it outlaw a form of white supremacist practice, namely segregation the essence of which was not “black people and white people shouldn’t be able to move their bowels in the same public facilities together”, but was about denying black people access to resources.
“increased racial tensions” .
Of course it would. Everybody knew that. But who increased them? Black folk?
“while diminishing individual liberty.”
Whose liberty, and liberty to do what? Black folk were not (are not) free. So he is saying that it diminished the freedom of those who possessed freedom. That "who" are the white folks, particularly the white supremacists.
Ron Paul is a racist. But then again so are Hillary and the rest of the white folk running for the Presidency. Obama is not, but he may likely be a tool of these folks.
Question is, which racist do we want to support, if at all?
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Keep it up!
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Crying Wolf
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I'm sorry
For something I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
GUILTY OF BEING WHITE
I'm a convict
GUILTY
Of a racist crime
GUILTY
I've only served
GUILTY
19 years of my time
... and I bet I'm racis also just cuz im white, funny how that works
Actually
You need to get a grip. May we suggest some days in a padded cell, it may do you a world of good.
No, it's Ron Paul's Statements
He made it, he owns it. A very good blogger from the black community responded to it. The article gets posted so the readers here can understand who Ron Paul really is.
Stalkers and people who need restraining orders from local activist organizations are usually those in need of a padded cell.
Did you know
Ron Paul denied making any such statements. He accepted responsibility for them because a person working on his newsletter made them. They were most definitely not Paul's sentiments though. That person was fired for making them.
As the New York Times and other publications have reported, the style and tone of the statements
were totally unlike anything Paul had/has said previouly or subsequently. The articles in question also were written some time ago.
It may behoove you to focus on the big picture, such as the erosion of political and civil rights, imperialistic wars abroad and the pending economic
meltdown. Ron Paul is small time compared to that.
Running battles with slow witted racist street thugs may get your blood racing, but they are nothing compared to the battles that must be waged against quick witted corporate thugs inhabiting the boardrooms and meeting rooms of the seats of power.
Knowing Shit
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Newsletters published under Paul's name from 1978 through 1995 first became an issue in his 1996 run for Congress, when opponent Charles Morris ran numerous ads about the newsletters.[148][149] The newsletters, which carried various names over the years—Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report—,[150] sometimes contained derogatory comments concerning race and other politicians. Alluding to a contemporary scientific study finding that "of black men in Washington... about 85 percent are arrested at some point in their lives"[151][152] one issue proposed that "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in Washington DC are semi-criminal or entirely criminal", and stated that "the criminals who terrorize our cities ... largely are" young black males, who commit crimes "all out of proportion to their numbers".[153][154] Paul's campaign replied at the time that the quotes were taken out of context and misleading[150] and rejected Morris' demand to release back issues; Paul went on to win the election.[14]
In 2001, Paul took "moral responsibility" for the comments printed in the newsletters under his name, telling Texas Monthly magazine that the comments were written by unnamed writers and did not represent his views. He said newsletter remarks referring to U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan (calling her a "fraud" and a "half-educated victimologist" whose "race and sex protect her from criticism") were "the saddest thing, because Barbara and I served together and actually she was a delightful lady." The magazine defended Paul's decision to protect the writer's confidence in 1996, concluding, "In four terms as a U.S. congressman and one presidential race, Paul had never uttered anything remotely like this."[40] In 2007, with the quotes resurfacing, New York Times Magazine writer Christopher Caldwell concurred that Paul denied the allegations "quite believably, since the style diverges widely from his own", but added that Paul's "response to the accusations was not transparent."[14]
In January 2008, James Kirchick of The New Republic revived the controversy by publishing a story detailing the contents of several issues of the newsletters, including images of the actual pages of some of them.[155] His article concluded that Paul was an "angry white man", asserting that the newsletter showed "an obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays", attacked Martin Luther King Jr. and offered "kind words" for David Duke.[150] Other issues gave tactical advice to right-wing militia groups and advanced various conspiracy theories.[156][157] Most of the incendiary items appeared between 1989 and 1994, a period in which Paul was not in office but in medical practice.[158] While the newsletters were published under Paul's name and frequently in the first person with personal interjections,[159] most lacked specific bylines for articles.
Paul disavowed the writings in a response to the New Republic article, saying that the quotations do not represent his beliefs, that he has "never uttered such words and denounce[s] such small-minded thoughts", and that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks were his personal heroes because they stood for individual rights. He again noted that he accepts "MORAL RESPONSIBILITY" for not paying closer attention to writings published under his name.[160] In a subsequent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, he said he did not know who wrote the articles and stated he "[repudiates] everything that is written along those lines." Blitzer told Paul that he was "shocked" by the newsletters, because they did not seem to reflect "the Ron Paul that I've come to know, and the viewers have come to know" over the course of several interviews during the campaign.[161] David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, commented "I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, 'Oh by the way, I didn't write that'."[161][162]
In the interview with Blitzer, Paul asserted that racism is incompatible with his beliefs and that he sees people as individuals—not as part of collectives. He also dismissed the attack as an attempt to accuse him of racism by proxy, stating that he has collected more money among African-Americans than any other Republican candidate.[161] NELSON LINDER, president of the Austin chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), defended Paul, saying that he has known him for 20 years, saw him as a "free thinker", "very intelligent and very informed", talking about "real issues" that "invite attacks on him", who was "correct in what he's saying", and that knowing his intent, he believes Paul has been misconstrued and taken out of context.[163] Former LA Times editor Andrew Malcolm noted that Paul got second place in the January 19 Nevada Republican caucus despite the recent reports about the newsletters.[164]
The identity of the author of the controversial pieces remains unknown, but Reason magazine identified then prominent paleolibertarian activist Lew Rockwell, who also served as Paul's congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982,[150] as "Paul's chief ghostwriter". The magazine also cites a 1993 tax document showing that Ron Paul & Associates reported an annual income of $940,000 for that year. The document listed four Ron Paul & Associates employees in Texas (Paul's family and Rockwell) and seven more employees around the country.[158] This now-defunct entity, in which Paul owned a minority stake, was during some periods the publisher of the newsletters; at other times, they were published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a nonprofit Paul founded in 1976.
The Man Took Moral Responsibility For It All Like A Man And Not A Politician. Even NELSON LINDER OF THE NAACP, Who I Believe is a Better Authority On Racism Then Any Of You Smucks, Defends Ron Paul Because He Knows Ron Paul. You All Need To Get Your Heads Out Of Your Own Self Righteous Butts And Stop Blindly Believing In Garbage.
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If everyone that agrees with Paul's statements is a racist, then call me a racist. Who cares?
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" Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that veiws humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. By encouraging americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty." - Congressman Dr.Ron Paul
"We do not get our rights because we are gay, black, white and so on. We have our rights because we are individuals endowed with them from our creator." Congressman Dr.Ron Paul
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Oh Really?
If Ron Paul is such a racist why did I hear him say that: "the drug laws target blacks" and Ron wants those laws repealed?
Michael Fisher slammed the very person who might have helped the black community. Nicely done!
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Wow
He is absolutely right, if you hold to the constitution, people have the right to discriminate. I don't agree with discrimination based on ethnic background or skin color but that doesn't give me the right to force my views on someone else.
In the words of Will Smith, "So you do you, and I'll do me"
Peace!
Ryan
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Ron Paul is right, very very very far right.
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Ron Paul is a libertarian; a belief that is inherently against racism or any other form of collectivism. His beliefs are and always have been about individualism and personal freedom.
Shame on you for throwing that in his face.
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