Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Time and again in his early political career, Reagan was on the wrong side of history. He opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. In his race for governor of California in 1966, he opposed the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. In a 1971 phone call with President Richard Nixon, Reagan made racist remarks about African delegates to the United Nations, calling them "monkeys" and saying they were still "uncomfortable wearing shoes". He did not attend Martin Luther King's funeral, even though many Republicans did, and opposed the Martin Luther King Jr public holiday right up until the day he signed it into law. A generation later, Trump dispensed with Reagan's dog whistle and replaced it with a bullhorn, deploying blatantly racist stereotypes in pursuit of the same goal.

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Wasn't fmr Pres Reagan the candidate who, at the time, pulled the Southern White Christians over to the Republican Party when he ran for the Oval Office?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-21 12:26 PM | Reply

Reagan was a shameless, shameful ------- of racialists.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-23 05:39 AM | Reply

When AIDS was funny 5,314 views Jun 2, 2019

During the early 1980's, when AIDS was first discovered, the Regan administration not only did virtually nothing in response, but when asked about it in press briefings, the response was laughter and gay bashing jokes. More than 600,000 Americans have died from AIDS and related illness. How many of those deaths could have been prevented by an administration that was able to see gay citizens as being fully human? These insensitivities continue to echo through the decades in American policy, calling for a prophetic church to stand up and speak truth to power whenever minorities are abused, whenever illegal and unjust wars are proposed, and whenever the resources of a nation are withheld from those in need.

#3 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-09-23 01:56 PM | Reply

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