Ronald Reagan’s Son Says He Was A Better President “For Blacks” Than Barack Obama

To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ronald Reagan’s son Michael wrote an opinion piece for Fox News’ website in which he argues that his father was a better “friend” to black Americans than Barack Obama.

Starting with a riff on the old notion of Bill Clinton as the country’s “first black president,” Reagan writes that he “could make an even stronger case for my father, Ronald Reagan, as ‘our first black president.’–but I won’t make that claim.”

“I don’t want to diminish the justifiable pride African-Americans take in having a president who is genetically and culturally black. Our first black President is Barack Obama,” Reagan continues. “But the past two years have made one thing clear: Ronald Reagan was a far better friend to black Americans than Barack Obama has been.”