Is Ron Paul an anti-gay racist?

Noting Ron Paul's association with the Mises Institute and libertarian Lew Rockwell, James Kirchick offers his musings in The New Republic that bear the title Angry White Man. The subtitle is more poignant: The bigoted past of Ron Paul

Kirchick points to past newsletters published by Paul that bear such phrases as "opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions," "if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be," and that black representative Barbara Jordan is "the archetypical half-educated victimologist" whose "race and sex protect her from criticism."

We then learn that libertarians are divided into two camps: The "urbane" CATO institute variety and the "neo-Confederates." We are left with the impression that Paul's views more accurately mesh with the like of Samuel T. Francis than Milton Friedman.

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