Reply #10: Racist Jokes in Reagan White House Reported in a Book

[Octafish]

Everything on Corporate McPravda seems to focus on the censure and not the censuree.



It must be a coincidence that they always seem to miss the big picture.

From Terrel Bell, Reagan Secretary of Education:

Racist Jokes in White House Reported in a Book

By LENA WILLIAMS, Special to the New York Times
Published: Wednesday, October 21, 1987

A book written by President Reagan's first Secretary of Education asserts mid-level Administration officials made racist jokes and sexist remarks in discussions on civil rights at the White House. The President's spokesman today dismissed the allegations.

Terrel H. Bell, who served in Mr. Reagan's Cabinet from 1981 to 1984, said the slurs included references to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as ''Martin Lucifer Coon'' and to Title IX, the Federal law that guarantees equal opportunity for women in education, as the ''Lesbians' bill of rights.''

The allegations appear in Mr. Bell's forthcoming memoirs, ''The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir.'' Mr. Bell does not name those who made the remarks, attributing what he described as ''sick humor and racist cliches'' to ''mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House and at the Office of Management and Budget.''

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http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/21/us/racist-jokes-in-white-house-reported-in-a-book.html

No wonder racists and warmongers worship Reagan: He was like them (at least his followers so believed).

PS: You are most welcome, malaise. And thank you for giving a damn! You have no idea how much you and all good DUers mean to me.