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OldDem2012

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4. Yes, Reagan was a bad man, but he's not the primary reason for the publicly racist attitudes....
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 09:09 AM
Nov 2012

....we're seeing today.

Reagan was just a manifestation of the racist attitudes brought to North America by the first white explorers. Millions of native North, Central, and South American Indians were killed during the establishment and expansion of European colonies going back as far as 1492. African slaves were introduced to North America very shortly after that.

To claim Reagan is the cause of what we're dealing with now is to ignore bringing the first slaves to the American Colonies in the early 1600s, the introduction of slave plantations in the South, the primary reason why we fought a Civil War from 1861-1865, as well as the heavy resistance to the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 and desegregation in the 1960s.

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