Real Deal on Reagan Former President pushed racism-with a smile

[underpants]

That is the headline in the June10-12, 2004 edition of Richmond's "black paper" The Richmond Free Press.

By George E. Curry
http://georgecurry.com/columns/index1.shtml?id=1086598525

Ronald Reagan was an amiable figurehead who made racism respectable. Efforts to re-write history, even by newspapers with so-called liberal editorial pages, cannot change that fact. I didn’t say he was a racist – I said had he made racism respectable. And he did so by launching an all-out attack on civil rights, all while smiling, tilting his head to the side, and doing a better acting job in the White House than he ever did in Hollywood.

Clarence Thomas, was first appointed to a post in the Department of Education before being named to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Reagan’s lone Black cabinet member, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Sam Pierce was so ineffectual that he was called “Silent Sam.” He was such a non-entity that Reagan didn’t even recognize him at a reception for mayors, greeting him as “Mr. Mayor.”

When I was covering the White House for the Chicago Tribune during the Reagan years, aides would concede off the record that Reagan’s I.Q. was lower than room temperature.

[gauguin57]

1. at the funeral ...

... did you see that sea of white faces in attendance? Looked like a white supremacist wax museum.

[underpants]

2. Haven't seen it yet-Condi?CLarence? uuuuuuuuuuhhhh

Digitally recording it.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Reagan the Racist!

[underpants]

4. This article doesn't even mention "Welfare mothers in Cadillacs"

Probably THE most racist thing ever stated by a President in public.

[Jabbery]

5. The Democratic Party left him - because he was racist

Raygun liked to say that he didn't leave the Denocratic party - the Democratic party left him. And it was true. The Democrats left all racists behind in the early 1960's - and all those racists became Republicans. Reagan left the Democratic party in 1962 because like many of his kind, he could not stand to see African-Americans treated with equality. And so he joined the party of hate, and he became a Republican hero. Republicans adore the racist who knows how to cloak his hate in an amiable, smiling demeanor.

[underpants]

6. Welcome to DU

:hi:

That is very accurate.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi Jabbery!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[underpants]

8. -

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[lanparty]

9. Reagan was a real trailblazer.

He was the first truly incompetent president. He was mearly a "front man" for others dad did all the planning and the deeds. It was no coincidence that Reagan was an actor. His role was reading the script and playing a part.

Now Dubaya has taken this to new levels. Unfortunately for the Freepers, Dubaya isn't even a good actor!!!!

He is merely a good con-man. That makes him a good campaigner. Thats it.

[peekaloo]

10. BringEmOn posted this pic from bartcop in the Lounge

"the eternal optimist" :puke: