"Ronald Reagan is the devil"?

In Huey's announcement in the very first scene of The Boondocks, he says:

Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11

Why does he say that about Ronald Reagan?

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Best Answer

He is rattling off a series of conspiracy theories that have been culturally popular at some time or another:

Jesus was black - the "traditional" image of Jesus depicts him as caucasian, while in reality, given his nationality, he was almost certainly olive-complexioned (think Mediterranean, Arab, etc.). However, there have been various theories that he was actually of African descent and has been purposefully white washed.
The government is lying about 9/11 - This one's probably more familiar because it's more recent. There is a huge group of "9/11 Truthers" that belive the government had a hand in the Sept. 11 attacks, or is otherwise lying about it.
Ronald Reagan is the devil - Back when he was president, there was a fringe theory that Reagan was actually the antichrist, based on a number of passages from the Book of Revelation. (It largely focused on the fact that his name - Ronald Wilson Reagan - had 6 letters per name, thus "666".)

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