Was Ronald Reagan a racist sonofabitch?

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms. Take a LISTEN:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-a-historian-uncovered-ronald-reagans-racist-remarks-to-richard-nixon

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

Reagan was racist. Many white people were racist back then. You have to put his racism in historical context, given that he was born in 1911 when there was still segregation and Jim Crow laws. It doesn't excuse his racism, but it does help contextualize it.