There were plenty of middle class black people in the 80s who were republicans and supported Reagan
Stop.
Reagan was hated by us in the '80s.
The dude went down to Philadelphia, Mississippi where those 3 Civil Rights workers were murdered at the beginning of his campaign to dog whistle to racist Whites about "States Rights"
He used the "Welfare Queens In Cadillacs" trope to justify villifying Black women on public assistance.
He ramped up Nixon's War on Drugs and started ramping up the incarceration of Black folks.
You couldn't say Reagan's name in the Black community without somebody wanting to shoot somebody.
His wife started a campaign even saying, "Look at all these beautiful White faces" for fukks sake.
So if Clinton can deceive his black voters why are you so hard on black people who were deceived by Reagan? At least Reagan deceived nikkas with the false sense of getting money, Clinton deceived nikkas playing a sax.
Dude, I hate Clinton as much as anybody, but that is not what happened.
Bill Clinton built relationships with Black leaders, politicians, and clergy for 30 years before he ran president.
Ronald Reagan was most famous for instituting gun control to stop the Black Panthers from carrying guns.
It's not even close who was more roundly despised by the Black community in the '80s and '90s.
I'd argue most Black folks were fooled by Clinton because Clinton at least tried to appear like he had our interests in mind.
Reagan since the '60s was on some straight

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White people fukking LOVE Carlton Banks and Steve Urkel, and it's definitely not because of their blackess. Especially Carlton.
If you don't know that, I envy you, because I've been around enough white people to know this is big facts.
He's basically sayig both characters are safe representations of blackness that are palatable to white audiences. He's correct.
It ain't like he's saying Jaleel White or Alfonso Ribiero are sell outs.
Dude, I grew up in an all Black neighborhood, EVERYBODY watched Urkel every week.
Nobody looked at Urkel as no Tom or "safe" for White people, just that he was a nerd.
I had nerds in my damn near all Black school too. They weren't being safe for White people. That's just who they were
Now, Carlton was supposed to represent an Uncle Tom type character, but the point was to make fun of Carlton.
Will, was supposed to represent an "authentic" Blackness, while Carlton represented a kid who was so insulated by his parents wealth that he never figured out he was Black.
I don't think he was put there for White people though.
He was put there for Black people to make fun of, really.