Lets revisit this gem: Lott, Reagan and Republican Racism (TIME Mag)

[wndycty]

Lott, Reagan and Republican Racism

If the GOP wants to attract black voters, argues TIME's Jack White, it must confront the legacy not only of Trent Lott, but also of former President Reagan

By JACK WHITE

Saturday, Dec. 14, 2002

Here's some advice for Republicans eager to attract more African-American supporters: don't stop with Trent Lott. Blacks won't take their commitment to expanding the party seriously until they admit that the GOP's wrongheadedness about race goes way beyond Lott and infects their entire party. The sad truth is that many Republican leaders remain in a massive state of denial about the party's four-decade-long addiction to race-baiting. They won't make any headway with blacks by bashing Lott if they persist in giving Ronald Reagan a pass for his racial policies.

The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands out.

Space doesn't permit a complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white folks that Republicans prefer to ignore . . .
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html?cnn=yes

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Reagan used the sight of a racist murder to deliver a major political....

speech:

"his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence"

Well........hmmmm....what NOT a suprise!!!

Reagan was one of them. He was the Klan, the Average White American Male who hated the idea that a non-white could make it in the world.

Now that we have SOLID EVIDENCE as to where he stands, let us think again before start being to nice towards him.

[Nlighten1]

2. Good catch!

No wonder my parents liked him so much.

[wndycty]

3. I will not bash Reagan as he dies. . .

. . .but I will not sit silently as he is praised either.

[Moderator]

4. Locking.....

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Thank you for understanding.


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