The following is Blog post number thirty and is in response to some talk as to whether or not Ronald Reagan was a great President. This post is an excerpt from the book Become Perfect 2007©. Alterations are only made in formatting for easier reading and clarity.

RACIAL RECONCILIATION

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN

[“There may be significant changes seen in some pockets of the Southern Regions of America: the South, yet, represents the significant racial and cultural divide in this country; the deep divisions between the two political parties cannot be clearer. The battles between Republicans and Democrats rage; there seems to be no middle ground between the cultural divide that remains. After all these years, the divide, is essentially, a North versus the South battle of wills and values, principally along racial lines.

The South favors the Iraq War; the North is against it! The North favors a “Woman’s Choice;” the South is against it! The North favors “Pop Culture;” the South is against it! For nearly four hundred years, there has been the matter of race in America, as it relates to our distribution of The Resource Bundle, combined with, the Concentric Circle of Peace. The North would champion a more fair distribution; the South will fight against it!

Since President Ronald Reagan, comity has left the building! If one looks at the events since President Kennedy and Johnson, who were trying to properly affect The Resource Bundle, no President, has done more to damage race relations in America, than President Ronald Reagan. In fact, President Reagan, did more to set race relations backward, than any President in recent history! And if one is to hold the title of "Greatest President" or even a "Great President" it would seem to this author that would would at least act like they favored all peoples. This man showed no such interest!

Indeed one would have to look back, to Andrew Johnson, to find a President, with a more negatively transformative affect on Black folk in America! Reagan’s election campaign in 1980, reinstituted the States Rights debate, which had been subordinated, to some degree, by both of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965.

These two Acts were established, to enfranchise, the Black-American people. Reagan’s voice, defeated Affirmative Action, as a method to make The Resource Bundle an egalitarian reality in America.

Reagan, was against: both the Civil and Voting Rights Acts, the Affirmative Action policy, the Martin Luther King Holiday; he was overridden, when he vetoed the bill, for America to put sanctions against the South African government, for their “Just Us Philosophy” White privilege system of Apartied!

Though Reagan may be the “King” of the Conservative Community, his efforts in the 1980’s to curtail the forward march of the Civil Rights Movement, were not lost on Black folk. Reagan’s efforts and judgments were about favoring White privilege and constricting The Resource Bundle!

His Presidency was for some, and it was not for all! We contend, that all President’s have a responsibility, to create a more Perfect Union; this means to produce a truly egalitarian society, in my judgment. Many Presidents, have failed at the moral principle of caring for “the least of these;” in this moral challenge, most assuredly, President Reagan failed miserably!

He had no desire for such a thing as egalitarianism, but rather for a deviant disadvantage based Capitalism that mainly rewards White privilege and the rich. His greatest accomplishment in my view was a restoration of our love for our soldiers, but we give credit to ending the Cold War to George H. W. Bush!]