Reagan was a racist

Harris L Racism July 31, 2019 1 Minute

Republican racism didn’t start with Trump. Racists migrated from the Democratic party to the Republican party starting in the 1960s when Democrats got civil rights laws approved. None of this is surprising and they should not have withheld it from the public for so long.

The 37th president of the united states and the 40th president of the united states having a good laugh about how black people are monkeys. https://t.co/lBch22a2zH pic.twitter.com/sPjWSkz1cx
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 30, 2019

Reagan called President Nixon to slur Africans as "monkeys." Of course there are tapes. https://t.co/kee80PJLCl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 31, 2019

Analysis: The new Reagan tapes are ugly, but not surprising, to a lot of black Americans https://t.co/2MLb3q5bmB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 31, 2019

In addition to the substance of the racist remarks being interesting, the fact that they remained hidden for decades to protect Reagan's "privacy" and his legacy is very notable: https://t.co/uuahSEmslj
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) July 31, 2019

Significant diff: even after dog-whistle “welfare Cadillac” campaigns, Reagan knew that in public, as prez, he was supposed to pay homage to the ideal of an inclusive country. Thus his valedictory pro-immigration speech.

Hypocritical, maybe, but better than what we’ve got now
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 30, 2019

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