Posted on 09/01/2013 5:16:37 PM PDT by grundle
Steven F. Hayward, Paul Kengor, Craig Shirley and Kiron K. Skinner are Ronald Reagan historians.
One cold evening in Dixon, Ill., in the early 1930s, a young man known as Dutch Reagan brought home two African American teammates from his Eureka College football team. The team was on the road, and the local hotels had refused the two black players. So Reagan invited them to spend the night and have breakfast with his family.
In November 1952, in one of his final meetings as president of Hollywood’s Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan called upon the entertainment industry to provide greater employment for black actors. His stand went against the times and received national media attention.
As president, in the same March 1983 speech in which he called the Soviet regime an “evil empire,” Reagan decried “the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice” in America. And at a reception for the National Council of Negro Women in July of that year, Reagan declared: “I’ve lived a long time, but I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t believe that prejudice and bigotry were the worst of sins.”
These are just a few examples of Reagan’s sensitivity to racial discrimination. This attitude was instilled by his mother, who was deeply involved in the Disciples of Christ, and his father, who refused to allow him to see the movie “Birth of a Nation” because it glorified the Ku Klux Klan.
But you don’t get any sense of that in the film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”
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Didn’t Reagan star in an anti-klan movie once?
Yes he did, Storm Warning where he played a DA prosecuting a murder case involving the klan. To say the least Pres. Reagan in this role put the klan in a very negative light, but we must not shatter any liberal’s illusions.
Yeah Storm warning which was on TCM few months ago
There is story that Ronnie and his brother Moon Reagan invitated couple of African American football players friends crash at their house in Illnois
You mean SoddomWood is lying about a Republican icon? Who would have thought?
Pray for America to Wake Up
Reagan gave (now Detroit Mayor) Dave Bing a minority businessman of the year award for success with Bing Steel.
I guess it’s time to make the movie “The Intern”, It will have to be rated XXX of course.
Did anyone actually believe Hollyweird would make a movie showing Reagan, or any conservative, in anything but a negative image?
At least The Butler is number 2 this week after being number one for two weeks in a row.
Michael Reagan has spoken out against his father’s portrayal in the movie, but where are Ron and Patty? Such freaking liberal ingrates they cant even defend their father. And it was such a hatchet job on the real butlers life, to further a political agenda. Yeah, they changed the Butler’s name but everyone knows who’s life it was supposedly based on. This will become his family’s history based on lies, his family should be mad, to. For instance, the real butler was married 60 plus years to one woman who the movie shows having an affair that never happened, and he didn’t have a second son that protested and the butler never quit his job over civil rights.
There was nothing really new and good out in those two weeks it was number one, so there’s also that.
I got question where the butler family who kinda based on I haven’t hear jack about them YET from one of ET blogs
Patton.
These are the same clowns that cast hanoi jane as Nancy Reagan. Did you expect less?
These are the same clowns that cast hanoi jane as Nancy Reagan. Did you expect less?
That movie came out 43 years ago when Hollyweird would occasionally make a decent pro-American movie. But Patton was a soldier and not a politician.
I keep praying for conservative alternatives to Hollywood to emerge.
why do movies only push a liberal message, never a conservative, or even just a truthful story telling of this man’s life?
“The Butler” gets Eugene Allen wrong, too!
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2013/08/27/reagan-the-butler-from-another-planet/?subscriber=1
Everyone knew this movie would trash Reagan when they picked the Traitor Jane Fonda to play Nancy.
The movie could have been great it was about a good man, but they decided to fill it with garbage and ,make a racist movie out of it.
You really want to hear from Ron and Patty Reagan?
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