Never Forget Folks that it was St Ronald Reagan who Supported the Apartheid SA Gov

[ChosenUnWisely]

he even denounced Nelson Mandela.

Proving Once again that Republicans are ALWAYS on the WRONG Side of History

[Bluenorthwest]

1. People on DU claim Reagan supporters were moderate and wise people who cared about the markets!!!!

"On a trip to the United States after winning the Nobel Prize in 1984, Bishop Desmond Tutu memorably declared that Reagan’s policy was ”immoral, evil and totally un-Christian.” Reagan’s record on South Africa was also marked by at least one embarrassing gaffe, when he told a radio interviewer in 1985: “They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country — the type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so forth were segregated — that has all been eliminated.” Of course, that was simply not true, and Reagan later walked the statement back."
http://www.salon.com/2011/02/05/ronald_reagan_apartheid_south_africa/

Ronald Reagan's Director of Communications was Pat Buchanan. I rest my case.

[ChosenUnWisely]

2. They say the same about Hillary, same folks just as mistaken

[pampango]

3. Reagan vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986 then saw sanctions passed over his veto.

Democrats in the Senate initially tried to pass the Anti-Apartheid Act in September 1985, but could not overcome a Republican filibuster.

Reagan vetoed the compromised bill on September 26, calling it "economic warfare" and alleging that it would mostly hurt the impoverished black majority and lead to more civil strife.

The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid. The sanctions were repealed in July 1991 after South Africa took steps towards meeting the preconditions of the act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act

[liberalhistorian]

4. Yes, indeed, and he and

his comrade-in-arms, ol' Maggie Thatcher, labeled Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" while coddling the REAL terrorists, the SA government and police.

[Octafish]

5. Truth.

[KamaAina]

6. Well, the veto was overridden with Republican support

Of course, back then, moderate Republicans were not on the endangered species list.