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right depicting black people as as you know monkeys or apes is one of those things saying the n-word is another one of those things something that i've talked about quite a bit like ronald reagan was horrifyingly racist in his policies but ronald reagan's messaging strategy didn't like directly say the n-word but basically found different ways of disparaging black people specifically the welfare queen strategy right something that lee atwater famous republican strategist talked about openly
Now, for a lot of liberals, the recognition that Ronald Reagan was an unimaginable racist did not come from, you know, flooding black neighborhoods with crack cocaine and doing the war on drugs or anything like that.
But it actually came from Ronald Reagan having a private conversation with Richard Nixon where he said African diplomats are monkeys.
That's when liberals were like, wait a minute, Ronald Reagan is racist.
This is when you realize Ronald Reagan is racist.
And for a lot of liberals, this is it.
If this is what causes people to realize that Trump is a racist, you know, I'll take it.
I guess strange that this would be it, but I guess not so strange when you recognize that this is the only thing that liberals respond to the only thing at all.
Donald Trump took a full page ad in the New York times demanding that the falsely accused central park five get executed.
Or anytime he talks about like a black person, a black politician, he'll be like, they're low IQ.
The fuck do you think that's a substitute for?
It all stems around the same racist bullshit.
Him and his father were prosecuted by the federal government for refusing to rent their properties to black people.