[trumandogz]

In my book, when one refers to a race of people as “animals” that is racist.

[mnehring]

To be fair, for several of these comments, Paul supporters claim he didn't write them but a staffer wrote them and just put Paul's name to them. A lot, however, are newly discovered so they haven't had a chance to apply that excuse to those.

From the article:
In other words, Paul's campaign wants to depict its candidate as a naïve, absentee overseer, with minimal knowledge of what his underlings were doing on his behalf.

[Captain Kirk]

I agree but the article doesn’t call black people animals. It refers to specifically to rioters. Ann Coulter could have easily said it....or much worse.