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Media Ignores Ronald Reagans Unmasking as Donald Trumps Racist Grandpa
By Tommy Christopher
Mediate, August 3, 2019
Excerpt
You could be forgiven if you missed the news that a racist telephone conversation between then-California Governor Reagan and then-President Richard Nixon was unearthed and released this week.
The call took place in October of 1971, during which Reagan and Nixon discussed the United Nations delegation from the United Republic of Tanzania following a vote on a resolution to seat China in the world body.
Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did, Reagan said in the brief recording.
Yeah, Nixon agreed.
To see those, those monkeys from those African countries damn them, theyre still uncomfortable wearing shoes! Reagan continued, to hearty laughter from Nixon.
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https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/media-ignores-ronald-reagans-unmasking-as-donald-trumps-racist-grandpa/
cilla4progress
(24,717 posts)fuckers.
Not surprising.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.
Aug. 3, 1980: Reagan Gives States Rights Speech at Neshoba County Fair
On August 3, 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan addressed a large crowd at the Neshoba County Fair as he campaigned in his bid for the presidency.
The fairgrounds are mere miles away from the site where three civil rights workers one a student participating in Mississippi Freedom Summer and the other two CORE members were murdered and buried in shallow graves by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
Reagan appealed to the George Wallace-inclined voters dreaming of a return to segregation and freedom of unfettered white supremacy in his stump speech:
I believe in states rights; I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. And I believe that weve distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the constitution to that federal establishment. And if I do get the job Im looking for, Im going to devote myself to trying to reorder those priorities and to restore to the states and local communities those functions which properly belong there.
In his appeal to white supremacists, he did not acknowledge the murders, which had been investigated by the FBI and were just one instance of violent assaults on local Black civil rights advocates and white allies in recent history.
Source: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/reagan-speech-at-neshoba/
electric_blue68
(14,818 posts)when I found out about this.
I wouldn't have recognized Philadelphia, Mississippi's name. However if you said three Civil Rights workers I would have immediately known who you were talking about.
So in a way it was a sort of a dog whistling announcement if people like myself didn't know the infamy just by location. "States Rights", yeah, Ronnie Ray-gun.
* Of, course, I voted in the Primary & General Elections.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Johann von Goethe said: The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Bell Book Says Officials Told Racist Jokes : Reagan Aide Says He Doubts Claim by Ex-Education Secretary
October 21, 1987|Associated Press
WASHINGTON President Reagan's first secretary of education says mid-level Administration officials made racist jokes and other scurrilous remarks during civil rights discussions, but Reagan's chief spokesman said Tuesday he does not believe it.
Terrel H. Bell, in a memoir of Reagan's first term, said the slurs included references to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and calling Title IX, a federal law guaranteeing women equal educational opportunity, "the lesbian's bill of rights."
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Bell did not identify those who made the racist or scurrilous comments. He could not be reached for further comment.
In his book, he says the jokes about King were made as Reagan was deciding whether to sign or veto a bill establishing King's birthday as a national holiday. He eventually signed it.
Bell said: "I do not mean to imply that these scurrilous remarks were common utterances in the rooms and corridors of the White House and the Old Executive Office Building, but I heard them when issues related to civil rights enforcement weighed heavily on my mind."
Bell added: "It seemed obvious they were said for my benefit, since they often accompanied sardonic references to 'Comrade Bell.' "
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http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-21/news/mn-9912_1_racist-jokes
Wasnt simply Voodoo Economics. It was full-spectrum dominance evil dominion.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,957 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Matt Tyrnauer, director of Showtimes The Reagans, explains the conservative icons legacy of dog-whistle bigotry.
By Gabrielle Bruney
Esquire, NOV 22, 2020
Excerpt
The Republican Party has consistently used Reagan for their moral authority, but I think that there are many aspects of the Reagan presidency that do not hold up under scrutiny and cannot be used as the basis for a moral argument for Republicanism, Tyrnauer tells Esquire. The huge amount of dog-whistle racism that came from Reagan's own lips, he says, was under-reported in the time and has been virtually erased from the popular imagination.
Using archival footage and interviews with journalists, experts, and members of the former presidents circle, including his son Ron Reagan, Sundays episode examines the ways in which Reagan utilized racism that tapped into the nations oldest bigotries while being just subtle enough to be denied. He kicked off his run as 1980s Republican presidential nominee with an appearance at the Neshoba, Mississippi county fair, where he professed his commitment to states rights. Lauding federalism at a campaign could seem reasonable enough, but the subtext is insidious. Neshoba county was infamous for the 1964 Freedom Summer murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, and appeals to states rights have long been used to justify southern states refusal to enact civil rights measures. By touting himself as a states rights candidate near the site of one of the nations most famous hate crimes, Reagan offered voters a racism that was both obvious and unspoken.
Despite his long and well-recorded track record of racism, Reagan remains a Republican standard-bearer, a symbol of days before the rank partisanship of Newt Gingrich, before the incoherence of Sarah Palin, before the malevolent incompetence of Trump. During one 2015 primary debate, his name was mentioned 45 times. One of, if not, the main reason I made this was to shine a light on Reagans racism, says Tyrnauer, and to try to make it unacceptable for politicians who stand on Reagans shoulders to get away with a kind of nostalgic message about the good-old days of Reaganesque Republicanism.
The Reagans depicts a pattern of folksy, anecdotal racism that today feels like an obvious precursor to Trumps. Theres Reagans famed welfare queen, a Chicago woman who supposedly had 80 names, 30 addresses, and $150,000 annual grab from the public pocket, which inflamed the hateful stereotype of black, female welfare recipients as being either outright criminals or indolent leeches reaping legal but undeserved riches. (The woman, a likely career criminal who bore no resemblance to the average public benefits claimant, was actually charged with having four false names and an $8,000 haul.) Another repeated anecdote told of a strapping young buck using food stamps to buy a T-Bone steak, while you were waiting in line to buy hamburger. Reagan only used the term young buck when telling the story in southern states, abandoning the descriptor when stumping in northern states with smaller Black populations. Neither the young buck nor the welfare queen, were explicitly coded as Blackbut the message was still clear.
This deniability becomes an essential part of dog whistling, Berkeley Law professor and author Ian Haney López, whos interviewed in The Reagans, tells Esquire. It simultaneously involves appeals designed to trigger racist fears and also the denial that the person is doing any such thing.
The list of Reagans under-recognized racism is a long one. He vetoed sanctions against South Africas apartheid regime. He opposed 1964s Civil Rights Act and 1965s Voting Rights Acts, openly defended housing segregation by arguing that property owners had the right to discriminate against Negroes, and initially opposed the creation of Martin Luther King Day. Last year, newly-public tapes revealed that Reagan, during a phone call with then-president Nixon, laid bare the vulgar subtext behind much of his more refined bigotry. In the wake of the United Nations vote to recognize China, Reagan railed against the African leaders who had supported the measure. To see those monkeys from those African countries, he complained, Damn them, theyre still uncomfortable wearing shoes!
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https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a34733508/reagans-showtime-racism-matt-tyrnauer-ian-haney-lopez-donald-trump/
Raised on Reagan is not a good thing.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Unfortunately.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)OTOH, were former President Obama to call Trump a racist for the birth certificate nonsense, theyd still be playing the tape nightly on TV.
Something else thats not mentioned is why the USA entered a never-ending War on Drugs.
Nixon hated happy hippies and non-white humans.
You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what Im saying?
We knew we couldnt make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
Source: https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
The racism makes clear how modern GOP leaders also have embraced NAZIism.
Faux pas
(14,644 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)What did these Christian men think of the rest of the world?
The Preacher and Vietnam:
When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill One Million People
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN
CounterPunch, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Theres a piquant contrast in the press coverage across the decades of Billy Grahams various private dealings with Richard Nixon, as displayed on the tapes gradually released from the National Archive or disclosed from Nixons papers. Well come shortly to the flap over Graham and Nixons closet palaverings about the Jews, but first lets visit another interaction between the great evangelist and his commander-in-chief.
Back in April, 1989, a Graham memo to Nixon was made public. It took the form of a secret letter from Graham, dated April 15, 1969, drafted after Graham met in Bangkok with missionaries from Vietnam. These men of God said that if the peace talks in Paris were to fail, Nixon should step up the war and bomb the dikes. Such an act, Graham wrote excitedly, could overnight destroy the economy of North Vietnam.
Graham lent his imprimatur to this recommendation. Thus the preacher was advocating a policy to the US Commander in Chief that on Nixons own estimate would have killed a million people. The German high commissioner in occupied Holland, Seyss-Inquart, was sentenced to death at Nuremberg for breaching dikes in Holland in World War Two. (His execution did not deter the USAF from destroying the Toksan dam in North Korea, in 1953, thus deliberately wrecking the system that irrigated 75 per cent of North Koreas rice farms.)
This disclosure of Graham as an aspirant war criminal did not excite any commotion when it became public in 1989, twenty years after it was written. No one thought to chide Graham or even question him on the matter. Very different has been the reception of a new tape revealing Graham, Nixon and Haldeman palavering about Jewish domination of the media and Graham invoking the stranglehold Jews have on the media.
On the account of James Warren in the Chicago Tribune, who has filed excellent stories down the years on Nixons tapes, in this 1972 Oval Office session between Nixon, Haldeman and Graham, the President raises a topic about which we cant talk about it publicly, namely Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media.
Nixon cites Paul Keyes, a political conservative who was executive producer of the NBC hit, Rowan and Martins Laugh-In, as telling him that 11 of the 12 writers are Jewish.
That right? says Graham, prompting Nixon to claim that Life magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and others, are totally dominated by the Jews.
Nixon says network TV anchors Howard K. Smith, David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite front men who may not be of that persuasion, but that their writers are 95 percent Jewish.
This stranglehold has got to be broken or the countrys going down the drain, the nations best-known preacher declares.
You believe that? Nixon says.
Yes, sir, Graham says.
Oh, boy, replies Nixon.
So do I. I cant ever say that but I believe it.
No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something, Graham replies.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/the-preacher-and-vietnam-when-billy-graham-urged-nixon-to-kill-one-million-people/
NAZI Think is how they regarded the rest of the planet especially Democrats who opposed them.
FakeNoose
(32,579 posts)... or slightly later, Nixon and Reagan both benefitted, and they both played up their own racism as much as they dared. That pretty much signaled the end of my Grandpa's Republican Party.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)they would take over the Republican Party, rebuild Dixie, believe money trumps peace, and transferred most all of the wealth ever created from the labor that created it and into the pockets of a few people who claim to own it.
malaise
(268,698 posts)Someone should send this thread to JoeScum
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Important name and intellect for Joe Scum and everyone who really gives a damn should know.
At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was my philosophy teacher from the Antilles who reminded me one day: When you hear someone insulting the Jews pay attention; he is talking about you. And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and my soul for the fate reserved for my brother. Since then, I have understood that what he meant quite simply was the anti-Semite is inevitably a negrophobe.
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
malaise
(268,698 posts)Profound quote
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)The beautiful game is radically anti-capitalist, anti-commercial and anti-bourgeois.
https://theconversation.com/fanon-on-soccer-radically-anti-capitalist-anti-commercial-and-anti-bourgeois-79087
malaise
(268,698 posts)It is deeply corrupt but the masses love it.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Dr. Fanon never saw the grotesque commercialization of the game that only needs a ball, some space, and a couple of kids of any age to enjoy.
(Sorry Ive been so dense of late getting on in years and loaded up on tears.)
and it is a beautiful game - I was involved with hte youth section of a community team - it was way more than sport.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Pruneface was a NAZI.
Reagan, White As Snow
by Alec Dubro
www.tompaine.com/, May 13, 2007
EXCERPT...
Domestically, he opposed every legislative remedy for African Americans, betraying a meanness of spirit and an open racism. As Sidney Blumenthal wrote in The Guardian in 2003:
Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it "humiliating to the South", and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house," he said, "he has a right to do so." After the Republican convention in 1980, Reagan traveled to the county fair in Neshoba, Mississippi, where, in 1964, three Freedom Riders had been slain by the Ku Klux Klan. Before an all-white crowd of tens of thousands, Reagan declared: "I believe in states' rights."
It's hard to believe now, but in 1965, a higher percentage of congressional Republicans voted for the Voting Rights Act than Democrats. Reagan, then, wasn't following party tradition; he was making a grab for the white racist vote-and it worked. Southern Democrats abandoned the party en masse for one more welcoming to white supremacy. No wonder so many loved, and still love, the man: He validated people's whiteness.
It's true that Reagan knew enough to occasionally disguise his racism. He appointed Samuel Pierce to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where Pierce presided over the halving of housing subsidies. No matter. Reagan couldn't remember the man's name. Once, at a reception for the nation's mayors, he greeted Pierce with a '"Hello, Mr. Mayor." Despite this, a few black conservatives, such as Armstrong Williams, were willing to validate him as someone who knew better than the "civil rights establishment" what was good for African Americans.
But it was in foreign affairs that he showed that he could rise above mere opportunism and flaunt his racism for all the world to see. He was the best friend that South Africa's apartheid government had in the developed world.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Reagan_WhiteAsSnow.html
The late Honorable Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young on Ronald Reagan, before he was elected president:
"Pruneface."
On Ronald Reagan, after he was elected:
"President Pruneface."
UTUSN
(70,645 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,314 posts)They dare not disturb the delicate minds of their consumers. The veneer they built around that rotted totem to greed and white power shall be protected at all cost.
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how the MAFIA helped Ronald Reagan get to the White House. Shocking documentary reveals Mob connections that catapulted him to the presidency - and how a probe was thwarted at 'the highest levels'
President Reagan owed his acting and political career to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, chief of entertainment behemoth MCA, who was in bed with the Mob
An investigation into the relationship between MCA and the Mafia was halted and Federal prosecutors believe it was one of the 'political favors' that can be traced back to Reagan's White House
'Ronald Reagan is a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything,' one secret Justice Department document revealed
According to the producer of the documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, one MCA executive had ties to Mob boss John Gotti
'Reagan's whole career in politics was subsidized by MCA,' he asserts, and helped him financially because for a long time he was living above his means
The Mob was probably working Nancy Reagan too, according to the producer. 'She was a driving force behind Reagan'
By JERRY OPPENHEIMER
Daily Mail, PUBLISHED: 13:22 EST, 21 May 2014 | UPDATED: 03:42 EST, 22 May 2014
A shocking new documentary screened exclusively by MailOnline exposes the chilling conncections between the Mafia, one of Hollywood's most powerful entertainment companies and its head honcho Lew Wasserman and President Ronald Reagan and his Justice Department.
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But there was a dark side to Wasserman - and to Reagan - all of which is revealed in a shocking new documentary, Wages of Spin II: Bring Down The Wall, that, according to the film's producer and those interviewed, links both of them in darkly shadowed ways to the Mafia, and the killing of a U.S. Department of Justice organized crime Strike Force investigation into Mob influence and infiltration at the highest levels of MCA.
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Richard Stavin, a former veteran federal prosecutor who was assigned to the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles and was an integral member of the MCA-Mafia probe team, declared in the film for the first time:
'It's my belief that MCA and its' involvement with Mafia individuals, Mafia-dominated companies and our inability to pursue those was not happenstance. I believe it was an organized, orchestrated effort on the part of certain individuals within Washington, D.C. to keep a hands-off policy towards MCA.
'At the time, Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States and Edwin Meese was the Attorney General of the United States (Stavin's ultimate boss). A little known fact was MCA and Lew Wasserman supported Ronald Reagan when he wanted to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, which was the launch of Mr. Reagan's political career.
'I would like to think that the people in the highest levels of this government were not protective of MCA...But I'm not so sure about that.'
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SAG's bylaws had always banned talent agencies like MCA from producing any form of entertainment, such as TV programs and movies. But during Reagan's fifth year as the guild's president a secret blanket waiver was negotiated with SAG, and it gave MCA and Wasserman the platinum opportunity to not only market talent as agents but also to move into TV and film making.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html
Well. That's a "wow" as they used to say in Hollywood.
One very important name that was left out: Dan Moldea, an investigative reporter who actually uncovered and documented the story in the early 1980s and wrote about it in "Dark Victory: Reagan, MCA and the Mob."
We told them the money would trickle down!