On Thursday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of Donald Trump's hesitancy to condemn former KKK leader David Duke, CNN co-anchor Alisyn Camerota used the issue to bring up other alleged racial issues from the past, including Ronald Reagan on "welfare queens" in 1976 and the Willie Horton ads against Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Guest Michael Eric Dyson, a race-obsessed former MSNBC political analyst known for hyperbolic attacks on conservatives who has made a few appearances on CNN in recent weeks, responded by suggesting that half or more of Americans have a problem with Barack Obama as a black President, and repeated an old discredited charge that Reagan employed a racist dog whistle by beginning his 1980 presidential campaign in a Mississippi city where an infamous anti-civil rights murder took place 16 years earlier.
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