2001 - a Paul quote - “weren’t written by me”
1996 - not a Paul quote - the part of the article that said “when he wrote the columns” could be an assumption made by the Dallas Morning News. Paul might have just said “I was not a racist, I do not evoke stereotypes, read the entire article.”
He might not have known what the person was talking about exactly.
From what I have here, the facts surrounding 1996 are vague.
It would be easier to see a conflict if Paul said in 1996 “I wrote every one of the articles in every one of my newsletters.” Did he say that? What did he say?
If the question is “were they Paul’s words?” I’d say that the evidence points to no, unless there’s a direct quote from Paul in 1996.
Dr. Ron Paul, a Republican congressional candidate from Texas, wrote in his political newsletter in 1992 that 95 percent of the black men in Washington, D.C., are "semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
He also wrote that black teenagers can be "unbelievably fleet of foot." [...]
Dr. Paul, who is running in Texas' 14th Congressional District, defended his writings in an interview Tuesday. He said they were being taken out of context.
"It's typical political demagoguery," he said. "If people are interested in my character ... come and talk to my neighbors." [...]
According to a Dallas Morning News review of documents circulating among Texas Democrats, Dr. Paul wrote in a 1992 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report: "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be."
Dr. Paul, who served in Congress in the late 1970s and early 1980s, said Tuesday that he has produced the newsletter since 1985 and distributes it to an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 subscribers. A phone call to the newsletter's toll-free number was answered by his campaign staff. [...]
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation. [...]
"If someone challenges your character and takes the interpretation of the NAACP as proof of a man's character, what kind of a world do you live in?" Dr. Paul asked.
In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.
"If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said.
He also said the comment about black men in the nation's capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.
Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then concluded in his column: "Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
"These aren't my figures," Dr. Paul said Tuesday. "That is the assumption you can gather from" the report.
Austin Chronicle - Nov 1, 1996
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A525510
(unrelated but interesting comment)..Paul's press secretary, claims that Morris, in his "faux East Texas accent, tells individuals on the campaign trail that Ron Paul is a Nazi." Morris denies it, of course, but the real matter at hand is that Paul considers Morris at least a tad guilty by association....
Ron Paul defends newsletter passages
Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Sep 26, 1996
Republican congressional candidate Ron Paul on Wednesday again found himself defending his newsletter, this time for passages he wrote in 1993 urging Americans to get foreign passports and hide assets from the government. Paul warned readers that the federal government could go bankrupt and take their assets....
POLITICS: Political Briefing;THE STATES AND THE ISSUES
New York Times - Jul 30, 1996
The newsletter, which Mr. Paul began about 1985, has claimed more than 7,000 subscribers; Mr. Paul said releasing it and other writings over his 20 years of political activity was "impractical." As for his remarks about Ms. Jordan, who was black, Mr. Paul said he was laying out a philosophical difference.
(file under strange bedfellows) Flap over Buchanan aide enters Texas race
Austin American-Statesman - NewsBank - Feb 18, 1996
Texas congressional candidate Ron Paul was passing out leaflets that noted Pratt's support of his candidacy. Pratt has made numerous speeches before groups dominated by white supremacists and right- wing militia leaders, and articles he has written have appeared in an anti-Semitic newsletter, although he says he fiercely opposes racism.
.... more to come, my video file has finished encoding and I have to jump over and finish that....