Why don't republicans ever talking about Reagan getting 241 marines killed

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I wonder why black people would have a problem with this... :patrice:
*Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., which at the time was known for only one thing: the Ku Klux Klan murder of three civil rights workers. Reagan, using the code words of the day, said, "I believe in states rights." (just like George Wallace, Orval Faubus and other white southern politicians before him).

*Reagan was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (a referendum on Jim Crow).

*He was also opposed to the Fair Housing Act, saying: "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has a right to do so"

*As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (he called it a great insult to the South).

*He tried to veto the Civil Rights Restoration Act passed by Congress to overturn a Supreme Court ruling (Grove City v. Bell) that limited the remedies available to the federal government when going after discrininatory private organizations that receive federal subsidies. The democratic-led Congress overrode Reagan's veto.

*He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination (Bob Jones University). Congress blocked it.

*In 1988, he opposed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation. The democratic Congress overrode the veto.

*Reagan also opposed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Democratic Congress overrode that veto, too.
After one of Reagan's pro-apartheid speeches, the normally mild-mannered Bishop Desmond Tutu said: "I found it quite nauseating. I think the West can go to hell! Your president is the pits as far as blacks are concerned. He sits there like the great, big white chief of old"

*He referenced to black women as "Cadillac-driving welfare queens" (nevermind that most welfare recipients are white)

*When MLK was murdered, he argued that he had it coming. Reagan said it was just the sort of "great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order, and people started choosing which laws they'd break."

*He opposed the MLK holiday: When John Conyers introduced the bill with the backing of the NAACP, Reagan vowed to veto it.
He only signed it after the democratic Congress passed the law with a veto-proof majority. All 22 senators who opposed it were republicans.
Reagan signed the law grudgingly, noting he did so because "Congress seemed bent on making it a national holiday" (yet, republicans try to give him credit for it today).

He also held up funding for AIDS research for 3 years after it was initially called a "gay disease" by Jerry Falwell and the Christian right.
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Yet, he's the GOP's ultimate hero :dry:
Black people didn't hate him by accident. He was a racist, plain and simple. :birdman:
 
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DEAD7 said:
He definitely turnt it up, but to say he caused it, or that it began during his presidency is inaccurate.
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ADevilYouKhow said:
that's why blacks need to vote Republican

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voting republican now has nothing to do with reagan really. i doubt the black ppl voting for the republican party look at reagan as their hero. unless its jesse lee peterson.
then again you cannot underestimate the jumping on each other c00ns do to show they are down with the rethugs.

i'm willing to listen to them on a case by case basis...
 
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voting republican now has nothing to do with reagan really. i doubt the black ppl voting for the republican party look at reagan as their hero. unless its jesse lee peterson.
then again you cannot underestimate the jumping on each other c00ns do to show they are down with the rethugs.

i'm willing to listen to them on a case by case basis...
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reagan is the whole basis for their modern platform
 
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He was also responsible for this: The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. It was the largest peacetime tax increase in U.S. history. He did it after his 1981 tax cuts precipitated the worst recession since WW2 at the time.
Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency, while tripling the federal deficit. He turned America from the world's largest creditor in 1980 to the largest debtor nation in 1989.
You never hear that shyt from conservatives today though. They're the masters of revisionism
I'm pretty sure that 20 years from now, republicans will claim that they never had a problem with gay marriage too :sas1:
 
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