Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) answered the charge that some of the newsletters that were put out under his name in the Republican presidential debate on Saturday night in New Hampshire, saying that “It’s been explained many times,” and again denied that he wrote any of the offending remarks. He then pivoted by saying that the Rev. Martin Luthar King was one of his heroes, and that he’s the only candidate on the stage that actually takes on the imbalances in the criminal justice system.
But also I’m the only one up here…that understands true racism in this country. It’s in the judicial system. And it has to do with enforcing the drug laws. The percentage of people who use drugs are about the same with blacks and whites and yet the blacks are arrested way did I proportionately. They’re prosecuted, imprisoned way disproportionately. They get the death penalty disproportionately. How many times have you seen a white rich person get the electric chair or get execution?
