“To watch that thing on television, as I did, to see those, those monkeys from those African countries – damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” Reagan tells Nixon, who erupts in laughter.

A lot of those people voted for Reagan primarily because of his perceived and actual manifest racism and dog whistles, the exact same reason they and the racist children they raised also voted for Trump.

How Ronald Reagan’s Racism Helped Pave the Way for Donald Trump’s

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a34733508/reagans-s...

>“The Republican Party has consistently used Reagan for their moral authority, but I think that there are many aspects of the Reagan presidency that do not hold up under scrutiny and cannot be used as the basis for a moral argument for Republicanism,” Tyrnauer tells Esquire. The “huge amount of dog-whistle racism that came from Reagan's own lips,” he says, “was under-reported in the time and has been virtually erased from the popular imagination.”

>Using archival footage and interviews with journalists, experts, and members of the former president’s circle, including his son Ron Reagan, Sunday’s episode examines the ways in which Reagan utilized racism that tapped into the nation’s oldest bigotries while being just subtle enough to be denied. He kicked off his run as 1980’s Republican presidential nominee with an appearance at the Neshoba, Mississippi county fair, where he professed his commitment to states’ rights. Lauding federalism at a campaign could seem reasonable enough, but the subtext is insidious. Neshoba county was infamous for the 1964 Freedom Summer murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, and appeals to states’ rights have long been used to justify southern states’ refusal to enact civil rights measures. By touting himself as a states’ rights candidate near the site of one of the nation’s most famous hate crimes, Reagan offered voters a racism that was both obvious and unspoken.

Ronald Reagan: No defence for 'monkeys' remark, says daughter

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49207451

>The daughter of the late US President Ronald Reagan has said there is "no defence" for racist comments he made in a 1971 phone conversation.

>Newly unearthed tapes reveal Reagan - then Governor of California - described UN African delegates as "monkeys".

>His daughter Patti Davis condemned the remarks in a newspaper article.

>"There is no defence, no rationalisation, no suitable explanation for what my father said," she wrote.

The Myth of the Welfare Queen

https://newrepublic.com/article/154404/myth-welfare-queen

How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-a-historian-uncov...

>In a taped call with Richard Nixon, from 1971, that the historian Tim Naftali recently made public, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.Photograph from Bettmann / Getty

OPINION: Ronald Reagan is a symbol of systemic racism. It’s time to rename our high school.

https://milwaukeenns.org/2020/07/16/opinion-ronald-reagan-is...

Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-rea...