Philadelphia, MS -- that city ring a bell? Freepers, take note...

[bunkerbuster1]

Ok, we all know about the horrible crimes committed on June 21, 1964.

But have we forgotten who officially kicked off his 1980 Presidential campaign in that same city?

what a message to send, huh?

[Joyce78]

1. Ronald Reagan

[rkc3]

3. You're making that up because you hate America.

Besides Ronald Reagan brought down the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

<sarcasm off>

[bunkerbuster1]

4. without firing a shot... and backwards, in high heels!

can't forget to add that.

[fob]

2. You know what's sicker than that? That's all it took to connect himself

to millions of voters whose main litmus test is the degree of racism the candidate is willing to display.

[BOSSHOG]

5. The klan

and free republic and the religiously insane and the aryan nation and millionaires who don't give a fuck about nothing except their bank accounts make up the republican party base. Throw in a couple of million who are just plain ignorant and you have quite an organization to be proud of.

[lateo]

6. Not only that but...

He specifically gave a speech about "States Rights" which is a republican code phrase for racists bs.

[bunkerbuster1]

7. I see the location was urged by none other than Trent Lott!

Jeez, just stumbled upon this...

from http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html?cnn=yes

Space doesn't permit a complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white folks that Republicans prefer to ignore, so two incidents in which Lott was deeply involved will have to suffice. As a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" — a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters.

Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal involvement. They don't care to recall that when Lott suggested that Reagan's regime take BJU's side in a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, Reagan responded, "We ought to do it." Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court in a resounding 8-to-1 decision ruled that Reagan was dead wrong and reinstated the IRS's power to deny BJU's exemption.