Bonjour, j'espère que ça t'aidera.
1)
President Nixon didn't mind being racist because he " casually and repeatedly referred blacks as jigs and niggers ".
En français ça veut dire que pour lui les noirs étaient des nègres et qu'il le fasait remarquer souvent et de manière décontractée.
2)
" was giving way to " = céder le passage à
The reality here referred to the election of Barack Obama to the presidential of the United States the January of 2009, the metaphor was that the blacks where just " niggers " but now one of them have became the president of the United States.
