Here’s a Clue:
The Butler did it — with a Pen — in the Oval Office.
Of course, Reagan was not anit-South African. It certainly had nothing to do with any hostility to any of the peoples in the sub-continent. The South African White settlement history has so many parallels to white American settlement history, any American who has ever visited there, who actually respects our history, will be profoundly impressed by the monuments that commemorate those parallels. (You see what look like Kentucky Long Riflemen, on the monuments; covered wagons, with which the settlers went into the interior, with their few artifacts, rifles & Bibles, that look exactly like our Conestoga wagons, etc..)
For more on how Hollywood has poisoned perceptions of American history see Persuasive Use Of Images.
Apparently "Butler" is just one more example of sixty plus years of real "witches brew."
What is really sad, is that a new generation is now being taught to hate those who defended what was real & true, to promote destructive thoughts, destructive behavior, and the misery that results from each--all in the name of "entertainment."
William Flax
Saw in my dino-newspaper this AM that the ‘Butler’ is “#1”. Period.
Not “surprise number 1” as when a conservative writes a bestseller.
I plan on seeing it when Okra can run a 4 minute mile.
They control the message. And the Sheep will believe.
The movie does not say that Reagan was against sanctions because he was anti-black but that he was against sanctions. This write up I would expect from a liberal with all the distortion a and exaggerations.
Classic example of liberal projection, considering it was LBJ who did the pandering for political reasons. He voted against the the voting rights act Republicans pushed for in 1957 and after the GOP voted for it again in 1965, LBJ signed it with the intention of pandering to the black voter, while keeping them poverty.
Well written and concise vanity. Perhaps your local paper would publish it.