Background detail: In about 1992, in one of a series of a regularly published newsletters about politics, a ghost writer made several [racist] remarks under Ron Paul’s name. Ron Paul took responsibility for the error stating that he failed to proof read the piece before it was published.
I doubt the remarks in Ron Paul’s 1992 newsletter are actually “racist,” as if to infer there is some biological or psychological differences among [race] groups. We all know, in the first place, that “race” is a bogus category invented by the eugenics movement as it emerged from the 19th century. (What actually exist are cultural differences: different more/less successful adaptations to modern society – e.g. education – and small variances as documented by Murray & Herrnstein in The Bell Curve (1994).
Murray & Herrnstein pretty well proved there are no significant differences, although their even presuming to look at the data created a firestorm of accusations about “racism.”
The best discussion of this issue I know is Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005), but Sowell makes very clear the issue is redneck culture. Redneck culture is very maladaptive to modern society. Many former African slaves in the USA (importantly: not Brazilian nor Caribbean) grew up absorbing and learning redneck culture from the white community. It is not any thing biological about people with African heritage.
If Ron Paul was only reporting higher crime rates and broken family rates among the African American community, then Lyndon Johnson is more to blame.
It is a fact that many African Americans are infected with the inferior Redneck culture. Not only candidates like Ron Paul should speak frankly about this contributing factor to (1) poverty, (2) poor school achievement, and (3) adverse social discrimination.
Criticism of the “facts on the ground” is some kind of blind spot among Ron Paul’s critics.