Wait—you're telling us that Ronald Reagan was actually super racist? No way!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, they never before had to attempt to explain away actual recorded evidence of Reagan giddily using a racial slur like a high school bully intoxicated by his own capacity for meanness.Reagan: An American Journey...
In all of my very careful research into his private papers, I never found an instance where I felt that Reagan was racist,” he said. “Generally when someone says, ‘I don’t have a racist bone in my body,’ I’m instantly skeptical, but in this case after all my work I found myself kind of nodding my head. So this is shocking.
Tim Naftali, a history professor at New York University and the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library, was the man who worked to get the tape released, hoping conversation around the racist rhetoric between two former presidents might facilitate conversation about how that rhetoric is still shaping policy.“Understanding how our presidents think about race is not a matter of character assassination, it’s about understanding what drives their decision making,” he said.
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