Why do Black People hate Ronald Reagan?

[Yelnoc]

i HAT BLOCK PEOPEL BUT i PRAY FOR TEHM

Obligatory note for those who lack a sense of sarcasm.

[opebo]

Why, you ask? This is Ronald Reagan we're talking about. Why would anybody not hate him?

The obvious answer. 

[I'm JewCon in name only.]

In 1996, when Clinton actually did welfare reform, the "Welfare Queen" was largely a myth, if she ever existed.

I love how in a thread about Reagan you somehow used Reagan's most dispicable line in a sentence about Clinton.  You're a real piece of work.  Keep spinnin'

I get an infraction for calling Politico a moron, but Link doesn't get infractions for his shenigans?

[Jacobtm]

Why the hell should they like Reagan? Did he ever do a damned thing for them? He certainly did a lot to fuk them.

One article:

http://www.blackamericatoday.com/article.cfm?ArticleID=629

Ronald Reagan, with the precision of a maniacal surgeon, began to dissect two decades of civil rights gains and set the stage for the rise of a reactionary, and patently racist, politics that still fills the nation’s air with a noticeable stench. While Nixon may have given birth to the “southern strategy”, appealing to white anxiety through thinly veiled racist messaging, Reagan perfected the art. I recall my utter disgust when he launched his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi and failed to even acknowledge the injustices of an earlier era that resulted in the killing of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three young civil rights workers. It was a purposeful snub by Reagan, who did express his support for “state’s rights”, designed to send a message to southern whites that the concerns and sentiments of Blacks were of no consequence to him. In a very real sense, the angry white man found refuge during the Reagan years.

Who can forget his attempt to reverse the long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private school that practice discrimination, and his effort to provide an exemption to Bob Jones University? The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled against Reagan and reinstated the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to deny the university the exemption. It was an “in your face” gesture toward Blacks revealed the depths of the president’s racial animus.

We should also not forget that Ronald Reagan aligned himself with the apartheid government of Pretoria, choosing to pursue a policy of “constructive engagement” with white minority rule over the interests of the country’s Black majority. His use of Cold War rhetoric and the language of anti-communism were a convenient façade for the racist underpinnings of a foreign policy devoid of a concern for human rights and positioned against Black self-determination in sub-Saharan Africa.

[Jacobtm]

Possibly the best summary of Republican racism, courtesy of Lee Atwater:

“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘n, n, n.’ By 1968, you can’t say ‘n’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.”

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An interesting question to be ask would be why Ronald Reagan hated black people.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

In 1996, when Clinton actually did welfare reform, the "Welfare Queen" was largely a myth, if she ever existed.

I love how in a thread about Reagan you somehow used Reagan's most dispicable line in a sentence about Clinton.  You're a real piece of work.  Keep spinnin'

I get an infraction for calling Politico a moron, but Link doesn't get infractions for his shenigans?

Link is regularly re-incarnated as a hero spanning hundreds of years, fighting for freedom and saving Princess Zelda, so he gets off the hook.