# Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist (new Reagan-Nixon tape) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 31, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagan-was-a-white-supremacist-new-reagan-nixon-tape/837923 "2019-07-31T11:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 115
**Author:** ![Rayks\_Marcial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rayks\_Marcial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayks_Marcial)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagan-was-a-white-supremacist-new-reagan-nixon-tape/837923/115 "2019-08-01T23:38:26Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Here’s a clue for you then. When I lived in the Congo, 10 years before Reagan said his racist crap, a UN official called his African assistant a monkey - affectionately, so he claimed. It caused a massive outrage at the highest levels of government and the official got expelled. It’s not like that became a racist term just recently. > > Reagan was either racist or stupid - and I never thought he was stupid. I’m still clueless. If I call a Filipino a monkey, will I be racist? How 'bout a Swede? And third party reactions, which is what your story is about, hardly matter to me. People thought Reagan was stupid, or at least not up to the caliber of guys like Carter and Mondale. That I know. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronald-reagan-was-a-white-supremacist-new-reagan-nixon-tape/837923)._