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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRonald Reagan's racist phone call to Richard Nixon released
Audio in link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/
pangaia
(24,324 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)help them? See we've been like this forever.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)into live microphones and in front of cameras, whereas Nixon, Reagan, and their ilk said them privately.
misanthrope
(7,418 posts)then you don't remember the 1980s.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)in American history. He was a polished turd- no more, and no less.
malaise
(269,054 posts)They are racist to the core
912gdm
(959 posts)that's why every damn road seems to be named after the bastard.
may he rot in hell
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I still insist on calling it Washington National.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)That should tell anyone everything they need to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner
misanthrope
(7,418 posts)which is a large and loud dog whistle in the South. It was only 12 years after MLK's assassination, less than 20 after those three civil rights workers were murdered there.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I found him sickening
muntrv
(14,505 posts)majority of African Americans found Ron racist.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Raised by a father who took both newspapers in town to insure I read all sides of each story. One leaned liberal, one conservative. He was dismayed as I became a conservative republican, and I think part of that was just natural 14 year old rebellion against a father. Its natural. Unfortunately it took me 30+ years to figure out my dad was absolutely correct. Wish he had lived to see the day I proudly changed my registration from republican to Democratic.
One thing he told me I disagreed with strongly but now understand. theres very little Black and White in the world. Its uniformly grey.
The republican message is nothing if not Black and White... America great, government bad, taxes bad. Etc. Now they have openly brought the real life Black and White into it which used to be a little subtle.
Reagan was George Wallace with a marketing agency.
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)Pruneface (right) and Statuary, 1966
gay texan
(2,453 posts)Ain't a saint. Color me fucking shocked....