Activists are petitioning an Elizabeth N.J. school board to rename Ronald Reagan Academy School Number 30 following the “insensitive, racist” remarks Reagan made on a phone call with Richard Nixon.
Activists are demanding that a school remove Ronald Reagan from its name after audio of the late president calling United Nations delegates from African countries “monkeys” was recently released.
The appeal follows an article published by The Atlantic on July 30 by Tim Naftali, the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library. Naftali released the recording of a phone call between Reagan, who was the governor of California, and then-President Nixon. In the call, Regan says “to see those, those monkeys from those African countries. Damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.”
“Dozens from the community have been outraged for some time about Ronald Reagan bearing the name of a school in Elizabeth before the revelation of the racist audio. We want the name to be removed because his name does not belong in a public school, especially in Elizabeth,” he says. “It was necessary to raise awareness to the community of Elizabeth, mostly a Latinx and African-American community, that were harmed by his policy and rhetoric.
"Naming the school after Ronald Reagan in the States 4th largest urban city, was the former corrupt school board majority led by Raphael Fajardo's way of rubbing it in the city government's face because the two were often at odds with one another," he wrote in the online petition.
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