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Originally posted by mnemeth1
Just like Arianna Huffington is personally responsible for everything that appears on the Huffington Post.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by baphomet420
There are no damning direct quotes in that article. The quotes cited came from the newsletters, not Paul. Re-read your article again.
edit on 11-1-2012 by mnemeth1 because: (no reason given)
"If someone challenges your character and takes the
interpretation of the NAACP as proof of a man's character, what kind of a world do you live in?" Dr. Paul asked.
In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.
"If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said.
He also said the comment about black men in the nation's capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.
Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then concluded in his column: `Given the inef! ficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
"These aren't my figures," Dr. Paul said Tuesday. "That is the assumption you can gather from" the report