Congressman Ron Paul's Answer To Combat Racism
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 01:55
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"The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It’s disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism.
It’s also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free speech. Since the FCC regulates airwaves and grants broadcast licenses, we’re told it’s proper for government to forbid certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of racial and social tolerance. Never mind the 1st Amendment, which states unequivocally that, “Congress shall make NO law.”
Let’s be perfectly clear: the federal government has no business regulating speech in any way. Furthermore, government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combating bigotry in our society. Bigotry at its essence is a sin of the heart, and we can’t change people’s hearts by passing more laws and regulations.
In fact it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along race, class, religion, and gender lines. Government, through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility between us.
The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. 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.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty."
To read more about Ron Paul's views, goto http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html .
He's running as Repug, but he's a Libertarian. Truly the first presidential hopeful that I am actually thrilled about. The first time I will feel like people who vote for someone may not be voting for the lesser of two evils. He's even adamently against the Real ID act.
Just so you Dems in here know, he's the only House Repug to vote against the Iraq War and consistantly voice his opinion against the war.
I'm not looking to argue with anyone here now and I've been away a while because I don't feel much like fighting these last few weeks. Just want to get the word out to anyone who didn't know about him.
Giuliani and the rest of the Repugs can kiss my left cheek while all of the Demons kiss the right
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O.k lets see...
racial group identities - does Ron Paul really think we can talk in terms of merely the individual, ignoring racial identity and genuinely tackle serious problems of racial inequity in this country?
How valuable would a study be that took skin color out of the equation and merely said "based on our study, some people make less money than others even though they are equally qualified."
Speaking in terms of collective racial groups is not a matter of shaping our society, its a matter of recognizing it in its current condition, and adressing that.
Secondly -
the women on the basketball team do not have the voice that Imus does...cannot speak for themselves on this with an equal platform, do not have a radio show or great celebrity so that statement was silly.
Third - as far as I know, the FCC never got involved in this. The Reverend Al Sharpton for example, who frankly I disagree with on this issue, used the power of consumer indignation and media attention to get Imus off the airwaves, which, in a capitalist society, is how you deal with a product you are offended by.
Fourth - affirmative action programs, welfare programs and all the others adress racism indirectly(I'll get back to this), but more immediately, they adress a sickness in our country that is guaranteed to perpetuate segregation by keeping people of different color in lesser societal roles, by keeping them out of the better jobs, sometimes souly based on race. Should our country allow a discriminatory disadvantage to cripple whole neighborhoods of people?
ultimately, I think programs like affirmative action are good. They do two things...they intermix people, contrary to Ron Paul's argument that they do the opposite. They get more blacks into schools that were far more disadvantaged than their white contemporaries, and this more than anything strikes a blow at racism. Racism is at its heart an ignorance...a lack of knowledge of other people and cultures...a fear of them. When we start to know our brothers and sisters we stop hating them and fearing them without cause.
It does another thing. It gives these people something to protect. It brings them into the fold of the American dream and the American way of life, and people tend to want to keep what they have, become less desperate, more conservative. They send their kids to college, and their kids become productive members of society
Ron Paul apparently, would do away with all this. He thinks that people will just rise up and be good neighbors once government gets out of the way, like we all were before all these programs, you know? Wait...is he crazy?
He's as naive on this issue as Reagan wason trickle down economics(I'll give Ronnie the benefit of the doubt and say he just didn't get it). I'm all for his ultimate Utopia there, but the way he thinks we're going to reach it, just doesn't adress the last 200 years.
for that matter isn't there a disconnect here? Ron Paul is all about the rugged individualism. If we're a society all about the individual and that that is as it should be, then why in the hell does he expect this great outporing of unsolicited good will from the haves to the have nots? I'm all for individualism as well, but it has to be tempered with a collective concience, doesn't it?
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Dr Paul told Alex Jones that he's afraid the Bush Gang and/or Shadow Govt will kill him if he starts winning. Well, he won the debate on MSNBC...
Ron Paul WINS MSNBC GOP Debate !!!
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The Nappy Headed Hos team are ADULTS. If they don't like Imus, they can sue him for slander in a civil court. This is, of course, a shocking concept to apply to "COLLEGE KIDS". College babies are not even allowed to drink alcohol, because they are ALL incompetent wards of the police state, according to the "criminal justice system". No college students make any attempt to fight this Constitutional Equal Protection violation of their God-given Natural rights, even when they're under arrest and trying to defend themselves in court. Yesterday, it was a "big TV news" story that dozens of college "kids" were arrested and taken to jail for quietly drinking alcohol at restaurants in my town. Ironically, the 14th Amendment for "Equal Protection" allegedly freed the nappy headed hos from their slavery. Prohibition is slavery.
Imus is now suing CBS radio for $120-million for breach of contract, since his contract REQUIRED him to be "controversial and irreverent". His contract was for $40-million, plus he's suing for triple damages to his other businesses (so-called "charities") that survived on his radio income. ("Charities" exist only to dodge paying all income taxes.)
The REAL outrage should be about overpaid gangstas in the Media Mafia, who are looting the govt CAFR "pension" funds (that could eliminate ALL taxation in USA), that are mere Wall Street gambling casinos and Mafia union scams.
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"Rush" Limbaugh has a $300-million contract, but was not fired for felony drug addiction, fraud and terrorism. Disney ABC CEO Michael Eisner paid himself $200-million/year salary, and was not fired for owning 20,000 slaves in Commie China. Both are "Jewish" (fake Khazar jews who are not Semites).
The same Media Mafia that refuses to report that Congressman Paul won that debate. Just like the Media Mafia refuses to report on who actually wins ELECTIONS.
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I can't believe that he hasn't had somebody try to kill him yet. I've already said that if he does win, he will be assassinated before his first term is up. It's a shame.
Righteous. Not that I expect any intelligent thought from a brainwashed sheep in the first place, but your post just reflects what a close-minded idiot you are. You must really have a low opinion of mankind in general if you really believe we need government intervention to keep ourselves from regressing to hateful racists. The media and the government perpetuates racism. These government programs have done nothing but destroy our schools and dumb them down to the lowest common denominator. How do you know how people got along before? Because you read it in a social studies book that is almost completely rewritten every generation?
Go ahead and look at a Social Studies book today. I guarantee it looks completely different than the one you read when you were a kid, assuming of course that you were one of the 5 kids in your class that even read the book. History's written by the winners, and the sheeple believe everything they read. Your post is full of trite Disney bullshit and "The More You Know" soundbytes you've been force fed all your life and makes me sick.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I can't believe that he hasn't had somebody try to kill him yet. I've already said that if he does win, he will be assassinated before his first term is up. It's a shame.
Have hope Six, I knew a few people who swore that Bush wold be assassinated if he was re-elected. Nothing so far.
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I could see it with Bush. He's done so many wrongs, not only to his own people, but all the people of the world. Desipicable crimes against humanity. So has Blair, but looks like time's running out there too.....
If Ron Paul were to be assassinated, it wouldn't be for anything he said in this post. It wouldn't be by the people either. It would be because if any of his ideas were to take firm root, and proles woke up one day and decided they didn't want or need an invasive government micromanaging every detail of their lives, there would be a lot of people up top that stand to lose a lot of money and control.
Think insurance tycoon with the sniper rifle on Bullworth. "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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Wha?
Lets look at how people got on shall we? We had Jim Crow laws, unprosecuted lynchings, back-of-the-bus policies and general segregation, the assasination of Medger Evers MLK and Macolm X...
do I need to go on? Are these products of historic revisionism to you? are you also a holocaust denier? What would be sufficient evidence for you to accept that things were and are fucked up and unfair, and that racism has had a very heavy hand in keeping the black community "in its place."
Would you say all of these things are products of government intervention and meddling? Was slavery?
ON edit - this isn't to say the government doesn't perpetuate xenophobia and racism when to do so benefits some agenda. I don't see affimrative action as a race-baiting agenda. I do see how affimative action programs galvanize racism to some extent, with no small helping from people who say it promotes racism by being unfair, bending the rules for people who didn't 'earn' it..." but I think the benefits outweigh the negatives.
And No, I don't have a low opinion of mankind in general. Look, I almost went another way with this, but I'm going to suggest that we keep the thread civil, because I think the dialog is important...because I certainly don't like being one of the close-minded idiot sheeple.
I have a high opinion of mankind actually, and of our system of government. You're the one who sounds cynical. I really believe that a well informed public( and by informed I do not mean propagandized) has the common good and the good of the country in mind. I think that it would attempt to make redresses to this issue through goverment intervention. That isn't the government doing this for us...its us using the government to do it.
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What information do you have that shows these programs have a dumbing down effect on America, undermining our overall education? I don't see it this way, but maybe I'm the one who doesn't have the facts. I'm willing to entertain that possibility.
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Are you also a holocaust denier?
Let's just say I haven't yet bought AIDS or the lunar landing. The story of the Holocaust could very well be true, while at the same time it could very well serve an agenda. Think about it. The Jewish people are the one truly untouchable demographic because of it. You can't even question a Jew's motives at any time now because you could be labled a racist. I'm sure it's working it's charm right now. You're probably squirming in your chair reading this now. The people who lived there didn't even know it was going on at the time and we didn't hear until much later. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying that I don't believe it simply because Hollywood and our text books said it happened. I give it 50/50 chance like I give most things I've ever heard or read.
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What would be sufficient evidence for you to accept that things were and are fucked up and unfair.
Plenty out there now doing a good job of that. Life is a bitch. What has government really done to help anybody? Has it really gotten any better? At what cost?
All signs point to no. The world is worse now than it has ever been and during the entire decline the government has gotten exponentially larger. Coincidence? Possibly..... I'm just making an observation.
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Would you say all of these things are products of government intervention and meddling? Was slavery?
Though slavery might not have been a Government sponsored program like "No Child Left Behind" or the "Patriot Act", it certainly got no flack from the Government at its origins. Many, if not most, politicians owned slaves themselves. It's no secret that many of them had sex with their slaves too. Government only turned on slavery when it suited its needs. This is how they've vilianized the Southern people and practically made the Confederate flag akin to the Nazi Swazzi. The Civil War had little, if anything, to do with slavery in truth. That is just what we were taught in school growing up. It was about a people who felt their government had been meddling in their lives too much (sound familiar...... Battle of Serenity, ahem.....). They wanted to secede from the Union, for reasons other than slavery. When the revisionists rewrote history for us, they made it a black/white issue to cover up the fact that these brave men were fighting for freedom to live without Government invasiveness. How many people today would form a bond and take up arms against our own oppressive government and the current administration? Shit... most people who would want to are too busy living their meaningless lives of instant self-gratification by playing XBox eating cheetos and beating off to internet porn. That or they're on happy pills.......
BTW... there were black men who owned property and had influence, even back before the Civil War. Some of them even owned slaves themselves (OMG!!!!!)... Yeah, and there were even white slaves too.. The only distinction they were given was that they were known as share-croppers and that they could come and go as they please. They still didn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.
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but I think the benefits outweigh the negatives.
This is only an opinion, and might I add, one that has no real basis because we don't really know what the alternative might bring. Having never tried it.
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And No, I don't have a low opinion of mankind in general. Look, I almost went another way with this, but I'm going to suggest that we keep the thread civil, because I think the dialog is important...because I certainly don't like being one of the close-minded idiot sheeple.
My apologies for not keeping it civil. I'm no stranger to feeling that maybe I was a little too harsh after a post. It was more the "hear hear" comment posted after yours that rubbed me wrong, but considering the source of that completely ignorant statement, it's not at all unexpected.
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