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The Ronald Reagan We Recall, And Not So Fondly
The Editors
09 Feb 2011
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Truth is always a healthy antidote to lies.  The mountain of fake history being spun around the life and career of Ronald Reagan is certainly too vast to move with a single article or book in this small space.  So we offer a more realistic recollection of the Gipper, in cartoon form, courtesy of Aaron McGruder's Boondocks.  In this clip, Uncle Ruckus is greeted at the door of White Heaven by the former president himself, who assures us all that "God doesn't have much of a problem with racism, and doesn't even remember slavery, except in February..."

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