What American President has done the most to undermine Black progress post the Civil War?

[BrownBunny]

Wilson is typically regarded by most historians as the worst american president.

Is that New Deal info accurate? It was the New Deal that supposedly caused the migration of blacks from the republican party to the democratic party. If it was ineffective, I don't see why blacks remained committed to the democratic party and wouldn't have returned back to the "party of Lincoln".

Not exactly true, it did eventually help Black Americans but not initially and because it was so much more beneficial for White Americans it just increased the Wealth divide between the races coming out of the depression.

 

[Fillerguy]

Johnson enabled white terrorists to attack our people enmass. His Reconstruction allowed racist war criminals to go right back to legally enslaving my people. For the sake of "nation unity". He also didn't want freed slaves to have citizenship.

 

[teeswinger]

Ronald Reagan.

 

[BrownBunny]

Ronald Reagan.

Please explain how the war on drugs is worse than Jim Crow.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Woodrow by miles. Even though Reagan destroyed black progress to a tee, he kept it under wrap in the form of Reaganomics.

Woodrow just came into office with a demeanor to eat "nikkas"

 

[get these nets]

Is that New Deal info accurate? It was the New Deal that supposedly caused the migration of blacks from the republican party to the democratic party. If it was ineffective, I don't see why blacks remained committed to the democratic party and wouldn't have returned back to the "party of Lincoln".

Agree with you here. Including AAs in the New Deal projects is what helped Dem. shift the Black vote over to them. The switch occurred in the 1936 election, and hasn't been reversed yet.

 

[keond]

Woodrow Wilson was probably the most overt racist president since Andrew Johnson.

The rest hid their racism behind smiles.

Nixon helped usher in the Southern Strategy they are still using to perfection today.
He is on tape talking at length behind closed doors about how much he hated black folks (he taped everything hence Watergate). Of course the war on drugs, which was just the war on the black community

The Bushes were extreme elitist and racist. Sr. with the CIA of course.

LBJ was a liberal racist with his Texas Dixiecrat bullshyt.

My answer is Reagan. As racist as Wilsons bytch ass is, his policies dont directly impact us TODAY as much as Reagans. All the way back to when he was Gov. of California and his war on the Panthers all the way up to his Reaganomics and flooding the streets with guns and crack. We still feel that today. He also gutted out most of the social programs that helped us like afterschool programs. The black community pre Reagan and crack epidemic are like night and day. The removal of black fathers etc etc.

 

[BiggWebb79]

The obvious answer is all of them

 

[newworldafro]

Interesting thread

 

[teeswinger]

Please explain how the war on drugs is worse than Jim Crow.

Here you go

Ronald Wilson Reagan ~ 40th President (1981-1989)

The arbiter of the “welfare queen” myth who evoked the old slaveholder and segregationist mantra of “states’ rights” perfected President Richard Nixon’s infamous “southern strategy” that actually worked nationally. President Reagan attracted voters through racially coded appeals that allowed them to avoid admitting they were attracted by the racist appeals. He stood at the head of a reactionary movement that undid some of the material gains of civil rights and Black power activists. During President Reagan’s first year in office, the median income of Black families declined by 5.2 percent and the number of poor Americans, who were disproportionately Black, increased by 2.2. million—a sign of things to come under Reaganomics. Then in 1982, President Reagan announced his War on Drugs at an inauspicious time: when drug use was declining. “We must mobilize all our forces to stop the flow of drugs into this country,” Reagan said.

President Reagan surely did not mobilize any of his forces to stop the CIA-back Contra rebels of Nicaragua from smuggling cocaine into the country to fund their operations. But he surely did mobilize his forces to draw media attention to their spreading of crack cocaine in 1985. The media blitz handed his slumbering War on Drugs an intense media high in 1986. That fall, he signed “with great pleasure” the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which established minimum sentencing for drug crimes and led to the mass incarceration of Black and Brown drug offenders over the next few decades. Like his campaign strategies, President Reagan took President Nixon’s racist drug war to a new level, and the mass incarceration of Black and Brown bodies accelerated under the Bush (times two) and Clinton administrations, especially after Clinton’s 1994 crime bill. White drug offenders, consuming and dealing drugs at similar or greater rates, remained disproportionately free. Reagan stands on this list as the representative of all these mass incarcerating presidents in the late 20th century.

 

[keond]

Here you go

Ronald Wilson Reagan ~ 40th President (1981-1989)

The arbiter of the “welfare queen” myth who evoked the old slaveholder and segregationist mantra of “states’ rights” perfected President Richard Nixon’s infamous “southern strategy” that actually worked nationally. President Reagan attracted voters through racially coded appeals that allowed them to avoid admitting they were attracted by the racist appeals. He stood at the head of a reactionary movement that undid some of the material gains of civil rights and Black power activists. During President Reagan’s first year in office, the median income of Black families declined by 5.2 percent and the number of poor Americans, who were disproportionately Black, increased by 2.2. million—a sign of things to come under Reaganomics. Then in 1982, President Reagan announced his War on Drugs at an inauspicious time: when drug use was declining. “We must mobilize all our forces to stop the flow of drugs into this country,” Reagan said.

President Reagan surely did not mobilize any of his forces to stop the CIA-back Contra rebels of Nicaragua from smuggling cocaine into the country to fund their operations. But he surely did mobilize his forces to draw media attention to their spreading of crack cocaine in 1985. The media blitz handed his slumbering War on Drugs an intense media high in 1986. That fall, he signed “with great pleasure” the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which established minimum sentencing for drug crimes and led to the mass incarceration of Black and Brown drug offenders over the next few decades. Like his campaign strategies, President Reagan took President Nixon’s racist drug war to a new level, and the mass incarceration of Black and Brown bodies accelerated under the Bush (times two) and Clinton administrations, especially after Clinton’s 1994 crime bill. White drug offenders, consuming and dealing drugs at similar or greater rates, remained disproportionately free. Reagan stands on this list as the representative of all these mass incarcerating presidents in the late 20th century.

Crazy how you declare a war on drugs while simultaneously flooding the streets with them.

 

[BrownBunny]

Here you go

You didn’t read the OP.

There wouldn’t have been a War on Drugs if Johnson didn’t repress 100 years of Black progress.

 

[teeswinger]

You didn’t read the OP

You didnt read the post bytch

 

[El Poyo Loco]

Woodrow Wilson basically started the Pacific theater of WWll by shunning Japan and they used that isolation to tool up and go after all colonial land in the Pacific

 

[Luke Cage]

Ronald Reagan.

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