The Council of Conservative Citizens has a big graphical link on the Cesspool’s website, as does the Institute for Historical Review, the leading holocaust denial outfit. Here’s a good example of what the Cesspool thinks is wrong with America:
The Political Cesspool 5/17/07 (TN)
BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT - James Edwards will be hosting a special program tonight when he is joined in-studio by local attorney Keith Alexander. Today is the 53rd anniversary of the disastrous Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision, one which ushered in an era of radical leftist ideology upon the American citizenry. Tune in and learn more about this decision as well as its harmful effects.
Brown v. Board of Education was, of course, the ruling that banned legally mandated segregation of the races in American schools.
Some might say that candidates appear in many forums, that their appearance is not an endorsement, and that candidates who start small, like Paul, have to get listeners wherever they can find them. This is all true up to a point, but candidates DO draw the line somewhere. The Political Cesspool is way beyond where that line would be for even most hard-right Republican candidates.
Ron Paul thus stands convicted by his own recent actions as at the very least willing to countenance a right-wing hate program as an acceptable forum. This further undercuts the pretense that the piece in his newsletter about the Rodney King riots expressed views he opposes. But that piece is not the only one in which his newsletter expressed anti-black racism. It is not surprisingly all but impossible to find print copies of this low-circulation, far-right zine from 15 years ago, and Lexis/Nexis holds no trace, but fragments of it have survived on the web. Consider these two gems culled by the Houston Chronicle:
We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.
What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?
These two quotations apparently came from the same issue as the Rodney King piece, but it should be noted that Paul’s newsletter is still listed by a Canadian neo-Nazi group called Heritage Front under “Racialist Addresses and Phone Numbers,” alongside such cozy bedfellows as Hammer Skin and the National Socialist White Americans Party. It’s unlikely that the Ron Paul Political Report earned its listing purely by virtue of the contents of one issue.
Here I have to ask: was Ron Paul unaware of nearly everything that went into his own newsletter? Are ultra-racist radio shows a legitimate place for a non-racist politician to court voters? Is attacking nearly the whole black population as a criminal class equivalent to responding to “current events and statistical reports of the time,” or to Jesse Jackson decrying the spread of urban crime?
To accept these things is to live in a never-never land in which distinctions blur away. Ron Paul simultaneously denies that he’s racist and makes clear that he doesn’t see anything unreasonable about racism. The rest of us need to draw a line in the sand:
No to racism…no to Ron Paul.
—— Part 2 of Ron Paul’s history of virulent racism,
“Racism and Libertarianism,” is forthcoming on my blog ——
The entire original piece from the 1992 Ron Paul Political Report can be read here or here. Warning–it takes a strong stomach to read this sh*t.
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