"And while many people wrongly assume that Ocasio-Cortez called Reagan “a racist,” what she really said was that his policies exploited racism, similar to our current White House Grand Dragon.
~In 1976, he tried to vanquish then-President Gerald Ford by voicing his opposition to the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.
~In 1980, Reagan kicked off his campaign in Mississippi, where local Klansmen were still being protected after the white supremacist, Mississippi Burning murders. A raucous crowd of 10,000 white people heard him champion “states rights.”
~He vetoed an anti-Apartheid bill and opposed making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday.
~He packed the federal courts with judges who opposed civil rights
~Reagan made the idea of "reverse discrimination" a thing.
~His "War on Drugs" targeted black 'crack' users and not white 'powder' users.
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