Reagan's actions and racist views became even more obvious and apparent when he was elected President. He was against placing sanctions against South Africa to end apartheid, even vetoing the Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986 although Congress was able to override the veto.
Reagan made a very controversial visit to a WWII cemetery in Bitburg, Ge…
Reagan's actions and racist views became even more obvious and apparent when he was elected President. He was against placing sanctions against South Africa to end apartheid, even vetoing the Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986 although Congress was able to override the veto.
Reagan made a very controversial visit to a WWII cemetery in Bitburg, Germany in 1985. About 2000 German soldiers were buried there and 49 of the buried were SS officers which made Reagan's visit offensive to many, especially Jewish people and those that had family killed and terrorized by the Nazi regime. He never apologized for it and it always seemed strange to me. Joey Ramone, a Jewish kid from Queens, and Dee Dee Ramone wrote the Ramones song 'Brain is hanging upside down(Bonzo goes to Bitburg)' because they were as incensed by Reagan's visit as many others were too.
I remember that visit because it was so shocking and inexcusable. It makes me think about how the Reich came to the US to study our Jim Crow laws to see how to segregate Jews and other “undesirables.”
Yes I'm reading Rachel Maddow's book 'Prequel' right now, which is outstanding and very informative but harrowing to realize that these Nazi sympathizers and fascist racists have been part of the American population for so long. The 3 part Ken Burn's documentary 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' was really great too and talked about the ways the Third Reich used the U.S. history of seizing Native American land and confining them to reservations or annihilating them altogether, also using the enslavement and savage treatment of Africans and Jim Crow laws that kept them repressed even when supposedly free.
As she does so well, Heather writes in detail and really shows how horrible the murder of these 3 men In Philadelphia, Mississippi was and how long it took for justice to finally be served in some way. Or that 8 other Black men were found murdered just during the search for them in the months that they'd been missing. That Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were driven by Deputy Sheriff Price down some sketchy road to be brutally beaten, murdered and buried at the dam site by KKK members he was associated with is still too appalling to believe it can happen here in the U.S.
Yet Reagan chose to go to this site for a reason, as well as going to the Bitburg Nazi cemetery. He knew were he was going in these instances and it says much about him.
I was still in high school during Reagan years so couldn't vote yet. But there really is more to I would add to Reagan's historical record. Iran-Contra and working back channel diplomacy to undermine Carter and not let the American hostages be freed until January 20, 1981 the day Reagan was to be inaugurated.
Also crack cocaine flooding the streets of predominantly poorer, black communities in places like Compton/South Central Los Angeles and Oakland/Richmond in the Bay Area during his presidency reached epidemic proportions. His drug war policies and the disparity laws for crack vs. cocaine possession meant the Black people, especially young men, were often given longer prison sentences and more severe punishments than White people for cocaine possession. As I said before his actions and racist views became very obvious as president.
Wow…. THANK YOU!!!!! Trying to think of “any” Republicans (maybe Nelson Rockefeller who lost…) who cared about “the people”…. My first presidential vote was for John f. Kennedy…. And I went to the polls with my Mother to vote for Harry Truman when I was 12.
I ignorantly voted for Reagan that year, also. That was my first time voting. I always regretted doing that! I have NEVER voted republican since then, and never will again.
Jimmy Carter was a good man. When the time comes to separate the sheep from the goats..........he will be part of the flock, protected peacefully...for eternity.
I’m not really for or against anyone or thing, strange as that sounds. We live in an environment formed by a global society that objectively (as objective as one can be which usually isn’t very) is insane. We then elect and blame leaders for not fixing it and think this makes sense. 😵💫
My commitment is participating in bringing forth a world that works for EVERYONE and everything. With no one or thing left out.
I’m clear that it must work for everyone or it works for no one.
Working with a planet full of frightened people is a handful and yet is the greatest opportunity anyone has had the privilege of doing since it has become possible to feed and actually care for everyone.
This possibility of a world that works for everyone has put in its appearance recently. While many will scoff or even take offense at the idea that this idea is an idea whose time has come, it still has arrived.
It’s time to put down the shoving, and buying, and bullying our way along.
There is enough, way more than enough to go around. All that’s needed is the collective political will to make it so.
It starts with each of us standing on our own two legs, by ourselves, on our own and saying, and giving our word, (word like in the beginning was the word, not the printed words here) giving ourselves, the context for our lives a world that works for all of us.
It’s a simple act as it requires no behavior.
Note that from here you can’t prove it. Yet, you can know it and honor it. You can live from the truth of it into the lack of the fact of it and thus make it possible to occur.
It’s up to each one of us. And don’t force it on anyone or yourself either. Look down deep within yourself and see if it is true for you.
If it is, then throw your hat over the fence and honor what is true for you.
Reagan's actions and racist views became even more obvious and apparent when he was elected President. He was against placing sanctions against South Africa to end apartheid, even vetoing the Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986 although Congress was able to override the veto.
Reagan made a very controversial visit to a WWII cemetery in Bitburg, Germany in 1985. About 2000 German soldiers were buried there and 49 of the buried were SS officers which made Reagan's visit offensive to many, especially Jewish people and those that had family killed and terrorized by the Nazi regime. He never apologized for it and it always seemed strange to me. Joey Ramone, a Jewish kid from Queens, and Dee Dee Ramone wrote the Ramones song 'Brain is hanging upside down(Bonzo goes to Bitburg)' because they were as incensed by Reagan's visit as many others were too.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/this-day-in-politics-may-5-1985-565776
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-bitburg-controversy
I remember that visit because it was so shocking and inexcusable. It makes me think about how the Reich came to the US to study our Jim Crow laws to see how to segregate Jews and other “undesirables.”
Yes I'm reading Rachel Maddow's book 'Prequel' right now, which is outstanding and very informative but harrowing to realize that these Nazi sympathizers and fascist racists have been part of the American population for so long. The 3 part Ken Burn's documentary 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' was really great too and talked about the ways the Third Reich used the U.S. history of seizing Native American land and confining them to reservations or annihilating them altogether, also using the enslavement and savage treatment of Africans and Jim Crow laws that kept them repressed even when supposedly free.
As she does so well, Heather writes in detail and really shows how horrible the murder of these 3 men In Philadelphia, Mississippi was and how long it took for justice to finally be served in some way. Or that 8 other Black men were found murdered just during the search for them in the months that they'd been missing. That Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were driven by Deputy Sheriff Price down some sketchy road to be brutally beaten, murdered and buried at the dam site by KKK members he was associated with is still too appalling to believe it can happen here in the U.S.
Yet Reagan chose to go to this site for a reason, as well as going to the Bitburg Nazi cemetery. He knew were he was going in these instances and it says much about him.
I voted for Jimmy Carter and was very disappointed when Regan was elected. Thank you for the history lesson, I forgot all about that visit.
You're welcome, thank you for the reply.
I was still in high school during Reagan years so couldn't vote yet. But there really is more to I would add to Reagan's historical record. Iran-Contra and working back channel diplomacy to undermine Carter and not let the American hostages be freed until January 20, 1981 the day Reagan was to be inaugurated.
Also crack cocaine flooding the streets of predominantly poorer, black communities in places like Compton/South Central Los Angeles and Oakland/Richmond in the Bay Area during his presidency reached epidemic proportions. His drug war policies and the disparity laws for crack vs. cocaine possession meant the Black people, especially young men, were often given longer prison sentences and more severe punishments than White people for cocaine possession. As I said before his actions and racist views became very obvious as president.
Wow…. THANK YOU!!!!! Trying to think of “any” Republicans (maybe Nelson Rockefeller who lost…) who cared about “the people”…. My first presidential vote was for John f. Kennedy…. And I went to the polls with my Mother to vote for Harry Truman when I was 12.
I foolishly voted for John Anderson that year and have been ashamed that I did not see the value of President Carter presidency.
I ignorantly voted for Reagan that year, also. That was my first time voting. I always regretted doing that! I have NEVER voted republican since then, and never will again.
Indeed, thank you for the history lesson…. I too voted for Jimmy Carter….
I voted for Jimmy Carter as well.
Jimmy Carter was a good man. When the time comes to separate the sheep from the goats..........he will be part of the flock, protected peacefully...for eternity.
I’m not really for or against anyone or thing, strange as that sounds. We live in an environment formed by a global society that objectively (as objective as one can be which usually isn’t very) is insane. We then elect and blame leaders for not fixing it and think this makes sense. 😵💫
My commitment is participating in bringing forth a world that works for EVERYONE and everything. With no one or thing left out.
I’m clear that it must work for everyone or it works for no one.
Working with a planet full of frightened people is a handful and yet is the greatest opportunity anyone has had the privilege of doing since it has become possible to feed and actually care for everyone.
This possibility of a world that works for everyone has put in its appearance recently. While many will scoff or even take offense at the idea that this idea is an idea whose time has come, it still has arrived.
It’s time to put down the shoving, and buying, and bullying our way along.
There is enough, way more than enough to go around. All that’s needed is the collective political will to make it so.
It starts with each of us standing on our own two legs, by ourselves, on our own and saying, and giving our word, (word like in the beginning was the word, not the printed words here) giving ourselves, the context for our lives a world that works for all of us.
It’s a simple act as it requires no behavior.
Note that from here you can’t prove it. Yet, you can know it and honor it. You can live from the truth of it into the lack of the fact of it and thus make it possible to occur.
It’s up to each one of us. And don’t force it on anyone or yourself either. Look down deep within yourself and see if it is true for you.
If it is, then throw your hat over the fence and honor what is true for you.