“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 …
The inconvenient reality is that Reagan was right about the macro situation in southern Africa: if you first removed the menace of global expansionist Communism, esp in Angola, South African apartheid's demise could follow swiftly. That's exactly what happened.
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This is a pretty bad argument since, to justify Reagan’s support of the apartheid regime, it would have to be true not just that the regime might, eventually, fall after Communism did, but that it could *only* fall after Communism did.
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The latter’s false: the apartheid regime could and would have fallen earlier, had Reagan not chosen constructive engagement with apartheid.
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