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Ulilia sana kuhusu that president's remarks juu ya ubabe wetu kule UN, siku zote matumizi ya matusi ni ishara ya udhaifu ndio maana tupo mute.
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Ronald Reaganâs daughter apologises for her father's âmonkeysâ remark on Tanzanian UN delegation
Patti Davis, the daughter of late President Ronald Reagan, addressed recently uncovered remarks in which her father referred to Africans as âmonkeysâ at the UN 48 years ago
Davis, 66, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post Thursday and said that although there is âno defense, no rationalization, no suitable explanationâ for what Reagan said, she thinks he would ask forgiveness for the comments if he were alive now.
âI donât know if it was masochism or shock, but I listened to the tape twice before allowing myself to cry. I wanted the story to go away, to get buried in the news of the debate. I wanted to immediately go back in time to before I heard my fatherâs voice saying those words,â Davis wrote.
In the tape, released last week, Reagan can be heard speaking with then-President Richard Nixon about a United Nations vote to recognize the Peopleâs Republic of China. Reagan vented his frustration with the Tanzanian delegation for dancing after the country was seated.
âTo see those, those monkeys from those African countries â damn them, theyâre still uncomfortable wearing shoes!â Reagan told Nixon to laughter.
In her op-ed, Davis described how she never saw that side of her father, noting, âHeâs not a man I knew.â
She described her father holding her in his arms and telling her, âGod made all his creations in different colors. It would be pretty boring if we all looked the same.â
Davis also described how her father, while governor of California, refused to accept membership into an all-white country club and as a college football player wouldnât stay at a hotel that was whites-only, instead taking the black players to his parentsâ house.
âI can tell you all these things, and more, but it doesnât remove the knife cut of the words I heard him say on that tape,â Davis wrote. âThat wound will stay with me forever. But I believe, if my father had, years after the fact, heard that tape, he would have asked for forgiveness.
âHe would have sought to make amends for the pain his words caused,â she added.
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Ulilia sana kuhusu that president's remarks juu ya ubabe wetu kule UN, siku zote matumizi ya matusi ni ishara ya udhaifu ndio maana tupo mute.
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Ronald Reaganâs daughter apologises for her father's âmonkeysâ remark on Tanzanian UN delegation
Patti Davis, the daughter of late President Ronald Reagan, addressed recently uncovered remarks in which her father referred to Africans as âmonkeysâ at the UN 48 years ago
Davis, 66, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post Thursday and said that although there is âno defense, no rationalization, no suitable explanationâ for what Reagan said, she thinks he would ask forgiveness for the comments if he were alive now.
âI donât know if it was masochism or shock, but I listened to the tape twice before allowing myself to cry. I wanted the story to go away, to get buried in the news of the debate. I wanted to immediately go back in time to before I heard my fatherâs voice saying those words,â Davis wrote.
In the tape, released last week, Reagan can be heard speaking with then-President Richard Nixon about a United Nations vote to recognize the Peopleâs Republic of China. Reagan vented his frustration with the Tanzanian delegation for dancing after the country was seated.
âTo see those, those monkeys from those African countries â damn them, theyâre still uncomfortable wearing shoes!â Reagan told Nixon to laughter.
In her op-ed, Davis described how she never saw that side of her father, noting, âHeâs not a man I knew.â
She described her father holding her in his arms and telling her, âGod made all his creations in different colors. It would be pretty boring if we all looked the same.â
Davis also described how her father, while governor of California, refused to accept membership into an all-white country club and as a college football player wouldnât stay at a hotel that was whites-only, instead taking the black players to his parentsâ house.
âI can tell you all these things, and more, but it doesnât remove the knife cut of the words I heard him say on that tape,â Davis wrote. âThat wound will stay with me forever. But I believe, if my father had, years after the fact, heard that tape, he would have asked for forgiveness.
âHe would have sought to make amends for the pain his words caused,â she added.
Ronald Reaganâs daughter apologises for her father's âmonkeysâ
Patti Davis, the daughter of late President Ronald Reagan, addressed recently uncovered remarks in which her father referred to Africans as âmonkeysâ at the UN 48 years ago