MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Beyond Race Magazine, Needle Exchange Programme, Political Positions Of Ronald Reagan
4 Nov 2016
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Early aids talk was directed towards white gay male communities, which led black activist to think that the disease doesn"t affect them, and pointed their attention towards bigger national issues that resulted from reagan"s presidency. Reagan had the least support from black people as a republican candidate. Taking away budget funds from welfare and social services agencies, many of which poor and black american relied on. Using black elites to disseminate a message of self-help and middle-class superiority, and to promote the internal policing of behavior within the black communities. Reagan"s general attack on the budget priorities of the poor and of people of color coincided and paved the way for an underfunding of aids. It was the perceived threat posed by ronald reagan, not aids, that consumed the energy of many black organizations and leaders and acted as a catalyst to mobilization in black communities.
