Let Us Think Back to that Very Old Former President

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I agree. Ronnie was probably about as straight and honest as any of them and more-so than some others. Reagan was old school and loved the country. We get a president that loves the country and the job, not living in the White House, not being the Chief, just loves the country and we will have scored a winner.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I once heard Ronald Regan say, with my own ears, that he remembers "when this country didn't have a racial problem". When the hell was that?! That was a red flag for me!
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Reagan left the presidency in January, 1980. I think he was a good president overall and I've never thought he was a racist. It would be good to have the context of his remark. I don't like racist comments no matter who makes them or which race they are directed against.

You'd think things would have improved since then but here are a few more recent comments I dislike with links to the context.

In 2010, a president of the United States warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.”

In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”

In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

That's just 3, all from the same person. There's more, equally offensive, but I'll stop there.

I like the following quotes much, much better. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." from Martin Luther King Jr. and one more of MLK's to end, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
 
Ronald Reagan was cool with me...I got paid when that man was in charge...[any President who passes a bill that puts money in my pocket is cool with me]Ronald Reagan...MY MAIN MAN!!!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I once heard Ronald Regan say, with my own ears, that he remembers "when this country didn't have a racial problem". When the hell was that?! That was a red flag for me!
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i recently watched 'This Changes Everything' a documentary about the push to make Hollywood hiring practices more gender equitable both in front and behind the cameras. What was really good about it was that doing and the research presented to media moguls and the ACLU made it pretty clear that in working toward gender equity it also helped with other kinds of diversity--Racial, Gender and sexual identity and for disabled people as well.

Representation matters---across the board. But the folks who've always been favored by the general assumptions usually feel like they are 'losing' something when a system is made more equitable.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I once heard Ronald Regan say, with my own ears, that he remembers "when this country didn't have a racial problem". When the hell was that?! That was a red flag for me!
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I did ample research on this "quote"! Ronald Regan did not say it! Additionally, that quote is not noted to have been said by anyone....unless it was a line he said in a movie or TV show that was written by someone else for the character he was playing.
Other than that, it is not something he would have said...

President Reagan is the most documented President in modern times. If he ever said this, it would have been tied to him by those that tried to defeat him...I don't believe you heard the President say this....
 
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Timewise 60+ said:
I did ample research on this "quote"! Ronald Regan did not say it! Additionally, that quote is not noted to have been said by anyone....unless it was a line he said in a movie or TV show that was written by someone else for the character he was playing.
Other than that, it is not something he would have said...

President Reagan is the most documented President in modern times. If he ever said this, it would have been tied to him by those that tried to defeat him...I don't believe you heard the President say this....
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My parents & I were watching him make a speech on TV and I heard it with my own ears, like I said. Don't care what your "research" revealed (or in this caxe...did not)!!
 
hollydolly said:
perhaps he said it at the beginning of his Alzheimers journey
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Perhaps. It was very early in his presidency and I don't think people realized, at that point, that dementia was on it's way. I found this tidbit in Wikipedia about his early years. Perhaps this is why he said it.
"Reagan recalled a time when two black football teammates were refused service at a segregated hotel; he invited them to his parents' home nearby in Dixon and his parents welcomed them. At the time, his parents' stance on racial questions were unusually progressive in Dixon.[24] Reagan himself had grown up with very few black Americans there and was unaware of a race problem.[25]"

Now I understand why he said that. But shouldn't the teammates being refused service have been his clue?! Being president of the UNITED STATES means he should not have had blinders on about what was happening racially in the rest of the country, outside of his little bubble.
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OneEyedDiva said:
Being president of the UNITED STATES means he should not have had blinders on about what was happening racially in the rest of the country, outside of his little bubble.
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He did have blinders on, purposely. Many of us who never held office know damn well about the racism in this country. Come on now, anyone who says differently is not being honest.....or they are just racist. I was born in the early 50s, and was aware of it as a young child, thankfully it was not in my family. Now, in 2023, it's still alive and going strong in this country and around the world. That is the ugly part of American history that these people are trying to bury.
 
Alligatorob said:
I don't think Reagan really gets a fair shake from the song. Recorded live at Woodstock, when Reagan was in his first term as California governor. Probably best known at the time for his radio, movie, and TV career.

His presidency was 20+ year in the future, no one was thinking about that.
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it's said that RR was the Queen's favourite American President
 
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