Reagan Was NO FRIEND Of Blacks

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" It is no surprise that former President Reagan's son, conservative political consultant Michael Reagan would add his unabashed and wildly inaccurate historical revisionism about Reagan with his absolutely ridiculous assertion in a Fox News op-ed piece that dad, Reagan was a "better friend of blacks" than President Obama. Normally that would be the cause for hysterical laughter except that that fits in with the inevitable sanitizing of former President Reagan's image and legacy as the nation approaches the centennial commemoration of Reagan's birth in February.



Race is exactly the one issue that Mike can make absolutely no claim to truth about Reagan on. Reagan and Reagan officials waged a by now well-documented open war against civil rights leaders and did everything politically possible to roll back civil rights gains during his eight years in office. That war began months before he took office. At his now infamous presidential kick-off campaign rally at Neshoba, Mississippi in 1980, held virtually a stone throw from where the three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964, Reagan shouted to a lily white crowd that "I believe in states' rights." He laced his campaign speech with stock racial code words and phrases, blasting welfare, big government, federal intrusion in state affairs, and rampant federal spending. The message was that if elected he'd not only say and do as little as possible to offend the white South, but actively undermine civil rights. At his first press conference the week after his inauguration, Reagan lashed out at affirmative action programs. He told reporters, "I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for purposes of discrimination and I don't want to see that again."



That was just the start. During the 1980 presidential campaign, he publicly branded the voting rights act "humiliating to the South." The implication was that he would not back an extension of the Voting Rights Act when it came up for renewal in 1982. He backed away from that only in the face of strong support from Congressional democrats (and many Republicans).



The checklist of Reagan anti-civil rights initiatives however soon grew to be telephone book thick. They included his gut of the Civil Rights Commission, his attempt to eliminate and slash and burn of an array of federally funded job and training programs, his borderline racist depiction of welfare recipients as "queens," his stack of the federal judiciary with strict constructionist, states' rights leaning judges, the wave of Reagan approved Justice Department indictments, prosecutions and harassment of black elected officials, his foot drag on imposing congressional mandated sanctions on then apartheid South Africa, and his repeated mock of civil rights leaders.




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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Reagan-Was-No-Friend-of-Bl-by-earl-ofari-hutchin-110119-387.html


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1. neither was George W. Bush...

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2. The MO for republican puppet leaders is always cut from the SAME hate-laced cloth

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3. Michael -

'...At his high school graduation, Ronald Reagan introduced himself to his son by saying, "My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?". He replied, "I'm your son, Mike."...'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reagan

Didn't Nancy keep the children of st ronnie's first marriage st a distance?

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4. The conservatives love to distort history.

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5. They're ramping up the republican propaganda machine that ' Reagan Was A Towering Leader '. Koolaid

for the brain dead.