Reagan had a blackface performance at his inaugural celebration

[ch15x]

Yeah, I heard about it years ago, but it got buried due to time/other things coming along...

 

[Dr. Acula]

I think Jackie Robinson is definitely in the wrong here and calling this c00ning in hindsight is appropriate.

But there is an interesting dynamic it seems existed between younger black people who were growing up during the civil rights movement and those who grew up before.

Jackie Robinson was very much a pro-military guy, having served himself, all his life and before Vietnam, there was this naive ignorance that American military adventures were "good vs evil" with the Nazi's in WW2 sort of setting this dynamic in American minds regardless of the ethics and debatable actions of the "west" even during WW2.

Vietnam was really a water shed moment where you have more politicized and activist black folks speaking out against this shyt for what it actually is and breaking free of American military propaganda and older heads who grew up who wanted to serve their country not only for the "got to beat the nazis and communists" rhetoric but an understandable reason for black men to want to participate because it allowed them to make more claim to America when you can argue that you're entitled to that claim when you are fighting and dying for it. Jackie was definitely the latter and viewed the military through those lenses. So, this is probably is where he is coming from even though when you take a bird's eye view of the situation, he is totally wrong.

 

[Thebadguy]

i didn't like him anyway for doing will dirty.

He was a deadbeat on NCIS too. Abandoned Director Vance's wife when she was a child.

 

[Mook]

Damn bruh this hurts. Dude played Will Smith's father on Fresh Prince. Damn, this reminds me when I saw a video of Jackie Robinson being a fukking c00n against Ali.

Ali c00ned against frazier. That was far worse.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

What in the entire fukk

 

[Apollo Kid]

 

[reasonable_doubter]

Trust Republican promises, brehs.

they had to edit it out.... would've made reagan look worse

 

[El Bombi]

This is the C00NISH shyt that I have ever seen.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

1967 Mulford Act:cacdevil:
1976 coined the term welfare queen:cacdevil:
1980 talked about states rights in the same location where Freedom Summer murders happened:cacdevil:

Turned up the War on Drugs :cacdevil:

Cut lower income housing:cacdevil:

Et cetera, et cetera :cacdevil:

If hell exists, then he's most certainly burning.

If not, then alzheimer's was not enough of a punishment for that devil

 

[OfTheCross]

When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala

this shyt is super offensive man. why did dude agree to do that?!?

 

[Yogi]

My uncle used to always talk about how much he fukking hated Ben Vereen. Called him a tap dancing Uncle Tom. This performance has to be what he was talking about

 

[concise]

they had to edit it out.... would've made reagan look worse

What?

 

[Wargames]

This is the most shameful thing that I've ever seen on TV



Is social media existed back then black twitter would of drove Vereen to kill himself

 

[Doctor Wily]

When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala

Gotta love how serious and hands off Carson was about introducing the act

... then 1 minute later watching that feggit Reagan laugh like a little school boy.

 

[Gains]

none of us should be surprised