He kept it wll hidden. But in recorded conversation with Nixon, he refers to African diplomats at the UN as monkeys. For Republicans, racism is a feature, not a bug. That said, it seems like Dubya was the exception to this rule.
Nixon gave a huge laugh.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/
What about dixie democrats? Robert byrd was a member of KKK a democrat, you can't be more racist than that. Yet republicans are the racist. Even JFK there are tapes of him being racist. It was the time, just like even obama was against gay marriage and now he's full blown advocate for it. Just because conservatives don't pamper blacks doesn't mean they are racist. Hell the liberals who make excuses for black are the racist if anything. Just my thoughts lol.
Yep, Byrd was a Democrat. And yes, KKK was founded by Democrats. If one wants a simplistic take on history, that tells us all we need to know about Democrats
today and that is where it should end.
The reality is more complicated. Most of the areas we now consider red states and counties, just so happened to also be Democrat during that period when Democrats were associated with these racist things. It's not a coincidence that those same areas are today solid Republican states harboring the worst of the lot.
There were racists on both sides, granted. But the point I am making is the Republican of 2019 was more than likely to have been a Democrat in the 70s and even early 90s in some areas. There was a shift, in the late 60s and 70s that effectively flipped the parties(or at least their membership). Byrd is just an artifact from this period.
Conservatives do not pamper blacks, I agree. That, at least in the US, seems to be the only consistent thing about them. Everything else, including economic views that flip flop, is just a cover story for their anti-black animus.
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