Upon arriving home on Saturday evening (Aug. 31) after sitting through -— and watching — the movie “Reagan,” 13 of my babies would come to my door. 

I would tell them that they should all go and see this movie about a man who was considered one of — if not the best — presidents in American history. 

“Well, Mr. H.K., since you are a black man, did you not know that (Ronald) Reagan was against affirmative action and most federal-sponsored social programs that aided the most downtrodden people in the nation, including poor whites?” Malik, one of my babies, asked.

“Well, Malik,” I replied, “I would strongly agree with President Reagan that the Democrats were turning America into a welfare state and that affirmative action was supposedly instituted to affirm the wrongs suffered by blacks during slavery and Reconstruction to present times — but it didn’t.

 â€œWhen the white woman was considered to be a ‘minority,’ she was lumped in with blacks, especially in the federal, city and state contract-letting process that required that certain percentage of contracts had to have a minority participation. This led to led to ‘minority fronts,’ as some white men used their wives — in name — as co- business-owners. 

“Banks loaned — to them only — for lines of credit that other legitimate minority contractors had difficulty accruing. Even some colleges that had scholarship programs for ethnic minorities — like the one named for Martin Luther King Jr. — awarded them to white students who proclaimed to have as little as 1 percent black DNA. And not to forget reverse discrimination issued as white students took back seats granted to lesser-qualified minorities for college entrance.

 â€œAs the president of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild, Reagan foiled the planned takeover by the communists of Hollywood and of the American film industry. 

“So much more... I would fast-forward to his most famous speech, as he stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and said:

 â€œâ€˜Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, a part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. 

“‘Mr.Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’ Reagan called for the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to do. The rest is history.

“President (Donald) Trump, my choice as the best president to enter the White House, proclaimed in a recent interview with Fox News that President William McKinley was a great president, who made America rich and who, too, faced an assassin’s bullet.

“I had thoughts on McKinley because he tore down a wall of hate that lingered in the minds of the Southern people who had not forgotten the total warfare that the Army of the Potomac — at the bequest of (President Abraham) Lincoln — had wreaked upon defenseless old men, women and children of the South. 

“McKinley and the men of this same army were so impressed by the former Confederates who now fought alongside them in the Spanish-American War that they all agreed with McKinley that there should be a place of burial for them at Arlington. 

“McKinley went a step further in asking the Southern women to build a Reconciliation Memorial Shrine of permanency to them.

“The ladies commissioned world-renowned Jewish sculptor and artist Moses J.Ezekiel, who also was a proud former Confederate soldier, to perform the task. 

“The headstone became a part of the memorial until the criminal U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with the Department of the Defense Army Chief (Lloyd) Austin, who should face — at the very least — Article 15 charges for his part in this fiasco (removal of the shrine)....

“President Trump, tear down this wall and put back the Reconciliation Memorial Shrine!”