http://hungryblues.net/2007/01/30/reagan-recording-found/ Ben Greenberg's Weblog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://hungryblues.net/2007/01/30/reagan-recording-found/comment-page-1/#comment-100165 Essentially Contested America » Blog Archive » Ronald Reagan Playing the Race Card Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:59:27 +0000 http://hungryblues.net/2007/01/30/reagan-recording-found/#comment-100165 [...] Check out Bob Herbert in yesterday’s NY Times concerning Ronald Reagan shrewd use of racial politics to win the 1980 Republican Party’s nomination for president. Here’s an introduction to Reagan’s sordid scheming: “Let’s set the record straight on Ronald Reagan’s campaign kickoff in 1980. Early one morning in the late spring of 1964, Dr. Carolyn Goodman, her husband, Robert, and their 17-year-old son, David, said goodbye to David’s brother, Andrew, who was 20.They hugged in the family’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Andrew left. He was on his way to the racial hell of Mississippi to join in the effort to encourage local blacks to register and vote. It was a dangerous mission, and Andrew’s parents were reluctant to let him go. But the family had always believed strongly in equal rights and the benefits of social activism. ‘I didn’t have the right,’ Dr. Goodman would tell me many years later, ‘to tell him not to go.’ After a brief stopover in Ohio, Andrew traveled to the town of Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a vicious white-supremacist stronghold. Just days earlier, members of the Ku Klux Klan had firebombed a black church in the county and had beaten terrified worshipers. Andrew would not survive very long. On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. Their bodies wouldn’t be found until August. All had been African-Americans.The murders were among the most notorious in American history. They constituted Neshoba County’s primary claim to fame when Reagan won the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1980. The case was still a festering sore at that time. Some of the conspirators were still being protected by the local community. And white supremacy was still the order of the day.” For Reagan’s involvement click here. You can find the controversy over this issue here and a barely audible audio can be heard here. [...] [...] Check out Bob Herbert in yesterday’s NY Times concerning Ronald Reagan shrewd use of racial politics to win the 1980 Republican Party’s nomination for president. Here’s an introduction to Reagan’s sordid scheming: “Let’s set the record straight on Ronald Reagan’s campaign kickoff in 1980. Early one morning in the late spring of 1964, Dr. Carolyn Goodman, her husband, Robert, and their 17-year-old son, David, said goodbye to David’s brother, Andrew, who was 20.They hugged in the family’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Andrew left. He was on his way to the racial hell of Mississippi to join in the effort to encourage local blacks to register and vote. It was a dangerous mission, and Andrew’s parents were reluctant to let him go. But the family had always believed strongly in equal rights and the benefits of social activism. ‘I didn’t have the right,’ Dr. Goodman would tell me many years later, ‘to tell him not to go.’ After a brief stopover in Ohio, Andrew traveled to the town of Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a vicious white-supremacist stronghold. Just days earlier, members of the Ku Klux Klan had firebombed a black church in the county and had beaten terrified worshipers. Andrew would not survive very long. On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. Their bodies wouldn’t be found until August. All had been African-Americans.The murders were among the most notorious in American history. They constituted Neshoba County’s primary claim to fame when Reagan won the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1980. The case was still a festering sore at that time. Some of the conspirators were still being protected by the local community. And white supremacy was still the order of the day.” For Reagan’s involvement click here. You can find the controversy over this issue here and a barely audible audio can be heard here. [...]

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