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Fucking Reagan and his fans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/05/30/everyone-was-talking-about-roots-in-1977-including-ronald-reagan/In addition, on Feb. 14, an A-section feature called Post Script included this quote from Ronald Reagan (sourced from unknown origin):
The millions of admirers of the TV presentation of ‘Roots’ didn’t include Ronald Reagan, who said, ‘Very frankly, I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.’ He added that he was impressed by the huge audience the series attained, but ‘I didn’t know there was anyone who could stay home eight nights in a row.’
Even though the sources is from unknown origin knowing The History of Reagan I have no doubt that it is true
