niteboth of these quotes have no evidence of actually having been said other than a quote from a book written over 30 years after they were supposedly said. On top of that, historians generally agree that both quotes are antithetical to lbj's political beliefs.
From 1940 to 1960 Johnson voted with the South 78% on civil rights issues. Before 1957, voted 100% against civil rights issues. He also voted against the C.R.A. of 1957 and 1960.
LBJ reversed his position on race 180%, likely because he was a consumate politico who realized he was going to need the black vote, rather than any sense of brotherhood or equality. In Congress, LBJ repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black Americans from lynching. As a Senate leader he did his best to cripple the C.R.A. of 1957 managing to reduce it to an act of mere symbolism by taking out the enforcement provisions before sending it to Eisenhower. Dem colleague Strom Thurmond staged the longest filibuster in history up to that point, speaking for 24 hours in a failed attempt to block the bill.
In 1960 another C.R.A. was introduced to try to correct the LBJ deficiencies of the 1957 act, and Senate Democrats again staged a record-setting filibuster. In both cases, LBJ petitioned the northeastern Kennedy liberals to credit him for having seen to the law’s passage while at the same time boasting to southern Democrats that he had cut the legs out from under the legislation.
Johnson later explained it: “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days, and that’s a problem for us, since they’ve got something now they never had before: the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this — we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
The opposition to civil rights was still somewhat prevalant in the Dem party at the time, excepting the northeastern liberal wing. They again filibustered the 64 C.R.A (for 57 days) and a (much) larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
niteyes, nixon was a racist. he was also a republican, and appealed to racists in the election, a nation who still held onto some of the bigotry that nazis convinced the world of.
A-are you blaming the nazis for racism in the south of the USA or just invoking Godwin's law?
Bringing up Nixon quotes is a response to this, and i took two presidents from both parties
jaegthe sad fact is that a lot of people actually think like trump and say the things trump say, theyve just never had a voice in the us gov that ran for president until trump
niteBill Clinton was literally nowhere near close to the driving politician behind the war on drugs, which was primarily created by the campaigns of Nixon and Reagan, so 90% of the assumption of this fat ass block of text is just fundamentally incorrect. Clinton certainly made a mistake in allowing for the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, but simultaneously that is a failure of the criminal justice system and the laws written by congress at the time.
It's true that the ' war on drugs" took off under Nixon,but bill himself admits he played his part
"Bill Clinton said Wednesday that the crime bill he signed into law as President in 1994 worsened the nation's criminal justice system by increasing prison sentences."
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/bill-clinton-1994-crime-bill/
niteIt's completely ridiculous to place the entirety of the blame of that situation on the Clinton presidency. As far as Clinton endorsing Robert Byrd, a man who was never a "leader" of the KKK and who, during his long political career, completely owned up to his association with the Klan and repeatedly, profusely apologized about his membership saying "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened." I dont necessarily see an issue with that.
Democrat United States Senator Robert C. Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd defended the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[1]
Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas) and filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Byrd later said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake. he did make up and rose to senate leader , but he was a kkk figure, and he became a prominent figure in politics, which is a rebutal to the quote of Jaeg i quoted earlier to disprove, the idea that before trump public or closeted racist figures had no place in US politics, something you must agree on.
nite
The rest of this block of text reads like something directly out of a trump speech - it's largely incomprehensible gibberish with a vaguely racist and threatening undertone. Also stop quoting Milo Yiannopoulos as if he is a credible source or part of a credible institution,
yea i think milo is a dangerous faggot.
reread this part "What they don’t necessarily deserve is the right to throw their toys out the pram, behave like children, and indulge in this sort of victimhood and grievance culture that the left has tried to do with gays, tried to do with women, tried to do with blacks, because what they basically want to do is replace the absent father with the state."
nothing racist about it tbh.
niteYou would do well to not attempt to infantilize those who you dont agree with, especially when you are the one taking quotes out of context and ignoring evidence.
but thats exactly the modus operandi i see and react against. I just like to point out the irony of it with some of my own. And unlike you, i actually provided links or sources in my previous posts. how come the onus is solely on me, when most people don't even bother?