Ronald Reagan: The White Supremacist's Man

By Alec Dubro at TomPaine.com:


http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/reagan_white_as_snow.php

Ronald Reagan. The man was a saint, a positive saint. Such strength, such warmth, such conviction, such vision. Such claptrap.

Reagan was a mean, crazy old man with a withering contempt for most of the world’s people, beginning with African Americans and extending most strongly to black Africans.

Last week, as we’ve heard, the Republican presidential candidates praised the name and heritage of Ronald Reagan 40 times during the televised Show and Tell at the Reagan Presidential Library. That none of them mentioned Reagan’s legacy of white supremacy and support for apartheid is a little like invoking Jefferson Davis and not mentioning treason or slavery. Actually, a lot like it.

Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist to his very core, and left enough traces over his lengthy political career so that it’s evident for anyone who cares to look—which apparently few do.

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....

That's where the three civil rights workers were murdered by the Klan in '64.

:patriot: <===insert stars and bars

way.

A member of the lynch mob generation.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/11/1431258


Throughout his presidency, Reagan supported the apartheid government in South Africa and even labeled Nelson Mandela's African National Congress a notorious terrorist organization. We speak with South African activist Father Michael Lapsley who lost his hands, one eye and was burned severely in an assassination attempt under the De Klerk government.



Until this administration I actually thought we could do no worse. I really believed that after the Reagan administration was done it would go down in history as the evil it was, we couldn't go back to the idiocy of the racism, the deficits, the assault on the environment, especially after Clinton's 9 successful years. Even though Gore actually won the fact that someone like * could be even considered viable and laughed off the stage says alot about the American psyche and of course the media.

A scan from the book 'The Real Information Scandal' by Eschel Rhoodie, the regime's notorious propaganda chief.
Well worth a read.

Drug store truck driving man


Chorus:
He's a drug store truck drivin' man
He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan
When summer comes rollin' around
We'll be lucky to get out of town


Verse 1:
He's been like a father to me
He's like the only DJ you can hear after three
And I'm an all night singer in a country ban
And if he don't like me he don't understand

Chorus

Verse 2:
He's got him a house on the hill
And he can play country records till you've had your fill
And he's a law man's friend he's an all night DJ
Sure don't think much like the records he plays

Chorus

Verse 3:
He don't like resistance I know
And he said it last night on a big TV show
He's got him a medal that he won in the war
Weighs 500 pounds and it sleeps by the door

Chorus e repete:

F G C
We'll be lucky to get out of town...

(He was only about 6 or 7 at the time):

There was an old man called Reagan,
A Christian in words, but really a pagan.
He said, "To have peace
You tell the police
To arm themselves with a ray-gun".

:applause: