No one excuses it Azizi. It is, along with anti-semitism and sexism and the "n" word, among the greatest and most pervasive taboos of our age. To call someone a "racist" or an "anti-semite" at the present time has the sort of fatal power of accusation/condemnation that calling someone a "witch" once had in Salem.

Now who wrote the articles in those old Ron Paul newsletters? If it wasn't Ron Paul, and if he had no knowledge of those articles at the time, how does that make him a racist?

Guilt by association?