“I’m kind of taken aback. This is stunning,” said Bob Spitz, author of Reagan: An American Journey. “In all of my very careful research into his private papers, I never found an instance where I felt that Reagan was racist."https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/31/reagan-called-president-nixon-slur-africans-monkeys-course-there-are-tapes/?utm_term=.ca9e5402babf …
I would also offer my essay on Reagan & Mandela. Regardless of his earlier prejudices, we've never had a president as knowledgeable & engaged with African politics as Reagan.https://thefederalist.com/2013/12/17/nelson-mandela-ronald-reagan-cold-war/ …
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This is goofball stuff. In 1978 RWR praised freedom in South Africa a decade and a half before blacks could vote.
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As for your claim that no president has ever been as knowledgeable and engaged with African politics as Reagan, suffice it to say that he preferred Savimbi to Mandela. Judgment this bad doesn’t come naturally; it takes real effort.
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