He opposed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, calling it “a bad piece of legislation.” A year later he came out against the Voting Rights Act, which he deemed “humiliating to the South.” During his 1966 California gubernatorial campaign, he defended the Golden State’s Proposition 14, which passed in 1964 and nullified the state’s fair housing law, effectively reinstating the right to discriminate in home sales and leases. “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house,” Reagan insisted, “it is his right to do so.” A Reagan campaign ad that same year referred to black neighborhoods as “jungles.”

Oh but that was in the 60s. He changed by the time he was president, right?

President Reagan, in another modification of his position on Federal tax exemptions for racially discriminatory private schools, said today that the Internal Revenue Service would withhold exemptions from such schools until Congress acted on the issue.

At the same time, the Administration proceeded with the reinstatement of tax-exempt status for the time being of two schools that practice discrimination, Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., and Goldsboro Christian Schools in Goldsboro, N.C.

…wrong.

Short version: fuck that guy.