UNRACIST RON PAUL

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On a related note I just learned that Rick Perry hunts at a game preserve called "Niggerhead."

Whatever happened to that thread about the Democratic party being the racist party?

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Its probably a game preserve he used to hunt at, when he was a Democrat.

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On a related note I just learned that Rick Perry hunts at a game preserve called "Niggerhead."

Whatever happened to that thread about the Democratic party being the racist party?

That's not actually true. His hunting preserve place was called "Niggerhead" before his dad bought it and changed the name. Not to say that many Republicans don't make overt appeals to racism and bias, but that at least this doesn't really mean anything, except that somebody in the South thought you could call something Niggerhead in 1980.

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In the interest of disclosure:

The Perry campaign contested the claims made by the Washington Post, saying the family never owned the property that bore the derogatory name.

“A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible. The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago,” Perry communications director Ray Sullivan said in a statement.

Perry’s father Ray first leased the property in 1983. Perry told the Washington Post in an e-mail that his father painted over the word shortly after he joined the lease.

“When my Dad joined the lease in 1983, he took the first opportunity he had to paint over the offensive word on the rock during the 4th of July holiday,” Perry told the Post. “It is my understanding that the rock was eventually turned over to further obscure what was originally written on it.”

Perry himself held a hunting lease on the land for several years between 1997 and 2007. His campaign says Perry has not visited the grounds since 2006.

“My mother and father went to the lease and painted the rock in either 1983 or 1984,” Perry told the newspaper. “This occurred after I paid a visit to the property with a friend and saw the rock with the offensive word. After my visit I called my folks and mentioned it to them, and they painted it over during their next visit.”

“Ever since, any time I ever saw the rock it was painted over,” Perry said.

But the Washington Post spoke with seven anonymous sources who had different recollections, saying they saw the rock with the racial slur on the property during the span that Perry leased the hunting grounds.

Seven sources or not, this sounds like hear-say at best anyway.