From The Associated Press, 6/11/04:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-reagan-minorities,0,6792138.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Reagan's Legacy on Minorities Conflicted
By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES --
James Anderson stopped watching television this week because he was
tired of seeing mourners by the thousands file past Ronald Reagan's
coffin and listening to endless praise for the 40th president.
"You don't see no black people at those memorials. I know he didn't
care too much about us," said Anderson, 62, as he ate breakfast
Thursday at Mama's House restaurant in the Crenshaw district.
"If you weren't rich or white, he didn't care."
For minorities and immigrants, the Reagan years are a complicated and
sometimes conflicted tale only half-told by the memorials, eulogies
and tributes to the late president playing out this week on national
TV.
For blacks and Central American immigrants in particular, Reagan's
policies at home and abroad created deep divisions.
To many, those policies left a legacy of racial insensitivity and
foreign instability that disenfranchised or endangered millions.
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And today they're trying to convince us that Reagan was was someone
that he was not.
Harry
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