In case you’ve been confused by the not-so-recent allegations surrounding the defunct Ron Paul newsletter, here is Paul explaining just what libertarianism means with regard to the race issue.

http://youtu.be/i3EADdr-5AY

Further, he has written on this issue for anyone curious to look into it: “What Really Divides Us?”

A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities… [G]overnment ‘benevolence’ crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot…

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individual who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their intense focus on race is inherently racist, because it views individuals only as members of racial groups…

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity… [I]n a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct what is essentially a sin of the heart, we should understand that reducing racism requires a shift from group thinking to an emphasis on individualism.