The main differences today are that 1 The left has more cards to play as additional groups are added to the deck and 2 -The MSP press is now , without apology, an active arm of the Democrat Party and doesn't even pretend otherwise

Washington Post

Carter Says Reagan Injects Racism

By Martin Schram
September 17, 1980

President Carter steered his way along a road of invective that has already become well-rutted in this young fall campaign, suggesting today to an all-black audience that Ronald Reagan had injected hatred and racism into the contest by using "code words like 'states' rights."

In the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. preached for years, Carter cautioned his audience that if the Republican is elected, there probably will never be a national holiday in memory of King's slain son.

The president also said in the text of his speech that Reagan had opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The president omitted this as he free-wheeled through the speech, ignoring his text, but aides say he stands behind it.

Interestingly, White House press secretary Jody Powell said there is no record of whether Carter himself supported the Civil Rights Act in 1964, when he was a freshman state senator in Georgia. Powell said he does not know whether Carter ever spoke out publicly in favor of the bill, but said Carter did actively support Lyndon Johnson, the bill's chief advocate, for president that year.




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