Richard Nixon--"Not A Racist"

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Just anti-mulatto:

Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster "permissiveness," and said that "it breaks the family." But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases -- like interracial pregnancies, he said.

"There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white," he told an aide, before adding, "Or a rape."
Meh, why distinguish. It's the same thing. Is there anything else to say?

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/06/richard-nixon-not-a-racist/20002/