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To: JohnM who wrote (178012)	12/27/2011 9:40:44 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543820

<<<What do you think, Steve? And would love to see what you think here.>>> A choice between ending segregation and personal property rights? Interesting thought and I think it is clear where Paul would stand on that. ...........If I was to be honest, here is what I think; .....Social norms take generations to change. Paul at 76 years old, may - or even likely was - racist to some degree. If he was to the point 20 years ago that he allowed writings in his newsletters that demonstrated racism, that is bad. And if he was able to change, then that says something about a mans character. I do NOT think Ron Paul is racist today. Racism; Our world is full of racism today! The most glaring example is the hatred for Muslims that seems so endemic in some conservatives thinking. Paul of all the candidates has made it clear he doesn't share the xenophobia towards Iran that others seem to lather themselves in. Some on this thread have offered that Paul is a man of little ideas; a notion that is not only bizarre but dead wrong. I share Ron Pauls thinking that by playing war in the back yard of the Muslim world we are creating the hatred in those people - so until we stop doing that, the conflict between these two cultures will go on. That fear of Muslims is racism! Sooooo, is it Paul that is really the racist or is it the rest of us? I would like to go on but this is already too long of a post that most won't read to the end. Respectfully; Steve