I think Reagan provides an exceptional service in this respect. For many “mail it in” progressives, hating Reagan is enough to absolve their inherent ethical hypocricies. These people wouldn’t walk on the same side of the street as a group of black men, but they still pat themselves on the back for being agents of equality.

Your slacktivism should be commended, Lifer.

Reagan was opposed to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in the same year that Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were slaughtered in Mississippi.

As President, he tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers were murdered, and declared that “I believe in states’ rights,” he didn’t mean to signal support for white racists.

When Reagan declared that the Voting Rights Act had been “humiliating to the South,” he didn’t mean to signal sympathy with segregationists. Those were just innocent mistakes.

Reagan tried to eliminate the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. In 1982, when he intervened on the side of Bob Jones University, which was on the verge of losing its tax-exempt status because of its ban on interracial dating, he had no idea that the issue was so racially charged.

In 1983, when Reagan fired three members of the Civil Rights Commission, it wasn’t intended as a gesture of support to Southern whites. It was, again, an innocent mistake.

In 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation. Congress overrode the veto.

Reagan also vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Congress overrode that veto, too.

Poor Reagan. Innocent mistakes, again and again and again. By all means, have your Reagan Day. Those of us who remember who Reagan really was will commemorate it by continuing to work for equality for all citizens.

(thanks Paul Krugman)

If the requested gesture consumed anything in the way of significant district resources and, much more significantly, if there were not so many other examples of commemorative and honorary gestures already included amongst the schools’ existing activities and calendar – - this argument, might, seem reasonable.

Since the ongoing practices of the district so obviously belie the excuse proferred, constituency, students, and faculty are forced to draw their own conclusions as to the real motives for such a choice.

They are in the Bay Area.

Are two Republicans prevented from marrying each other? Well, the last one might be a good thing.

SEE!!!! The ridicule! We need “Ronald Reagan Day” NOW to stop the ridicule!!!!

The Ronald Reagan comparison is bull. Reaganites are not a minority that suffers constant humiliation and discrimination. Remind me, do kids call everything uncool ‘Reagan’ or ‘gay’? Are Republican teens more likely to commit suicide than gay teens? Are two Republicans prevented from marrying each other? Well, the last one might be a good thing.