Ron Paul’s Statement on Racism
From the blog QandO
Sphere: Related ContentRon Paul, as we’ve mentioned several times, has garnered some attention due to the support that white supremacist groups have given to his campaign. (more 411 here)
Apparently, this attention has caused to issue a forthright official statement about the evils of racism.
But, while it a statement against racism, it’s kind of an…odd one. Let’s go through his statement in its entirety.
A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
Well, that’s an interesting start. I seem to remember that way back in the good ol’ Rugged Individualism days, the rugged individualists in about half the country owned slaves. Black slaves, to be precise. That seems to me like the rugged individualists were sort of obsessed with racial group identities, at least insofar as they determined which group could be legally owned by other groups.
As I remember, they even promulgated very specific laws about how much black blood (one drop, basically) one could posesss and be considered a potential slave. Many of the rugged individualists also frowned on sexual relations between racial groups. And, by “frowned on”, I mean “hung the offending member of the disfavored group”.
I don’t think that being “uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities” is a particularly new phenomena in American cultural life.
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