Reply #46: Racist SC&MB@G & Unionbusting SH@THE@D

[Earth Bound Misfit]

He was elbow deep in the same old race-baiting Southern strategy of Goldwater and Nixon. He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. As president he tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. In 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation.

He vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa, which Congress overrode.

Reagan’s use of code words like “states’ rights” in place of blatantly bigoted rhetoric was crucial to the success of the G.O.P.’s Southern strategy.

He can't be DEAD ENOUGH for me.