Ron Paul Dodges Racist Comments In Newsletter

By: Pat Prescott
12/23/2011 06:35 PM ET

Ron Paul Racist Newsletter – Ron Paul is having to answer some questions about the newsletters he distributed with racist remarks from the 1980s and 90s. He doesn’t want to discuss the issue and said he’s tired of being “pestered” by reporters about the topic.

One statement in a newsletter read:

“We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational.”

There was a statement about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles that read:

“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.”

Recently, Paul was asked about the old newsletters, that bared his name, during a CNN interview.

He was asked by Gloria Borger about the newsletters and was blunt with his answer.

“I didn’t write them. I didn’t read them at the time, and I disavow them,” he said. “That is the answer.”

Borger pressed the topic a little more by saying the comments written “were pretty incendiary.”

Paul was not happy as he stood up and pulled his mic off as he said “because of people like you,” and walked off the set.

The Ron Paul racist newsletters might be old, but many people want to know why they were distributed in the first place. And if he didn’t write them, who did?