St. Ronnie: it's racist to suggest that American slavery was a racial issue.

[kpete]

Rick Perlstein
September 5 at 10:31pm · Edited ·

So the Economist got in trouble for a review that complained a book on slavery was unkind to the people who owned the slaves. Guess who said something similar about "Roots"? Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Washington Post, February 14, 1977, p. A3:

"Very frankly, I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.

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[Kurska]

1. The stupidest thing is you can tell he didn't even watch it.

There was at least one very sympathetic white character who was a plantation helper and disagreed with the institution of slavery. Him and his family even decided to live with the freed slaves after the civil war ended.