They at least showed he was some what racist. LBJ was in fact the biggest racist outside of Nixon to hold office. The only reason he did any of the things he did was to get blacks to vote Democrat. He said “I’ll have those *beep* voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
LBJ was a great president in a lot of ways. Granted Vietnam was a cluster *beep* but with Domestic affairs he was very effective. For the environment, the poor and for civil rights. While he no doubt had a lot of racists opinions, think about where He grew up . In Texas during the early 1900s. You have to judge people by the times they lived. And Who cares what he thought, we should judge him by what did. And he did a lot for civil rights He called Dr Kings widow the night he was killed and told her how sorry he was. After it happened he called for a day of mourning in the whole country. Now portraying Ronald Reagan or Nancy in a positive light. That's unforgivable.
shareThe only reason he did any of the things he did was to get blacks to vote Democrat. He said “I’ll have those *beep* voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
Nope. He really did believe in the civil rights act. Don't judge him by his words. He was a crude man raised in the early 20th century. He also was incredibly mean to his wife.
He signed the Civil Rights Act, knowing that it would cost his party a lot of votes. After he signed it, he said....He'd just signed away the south. And he was right. Those bubbas that now vote Republican were yellow dog Democrats before the Civil Rights Act who religiously voted for the Democratic Party.
At least he wasn't shown waving his dick around, that would have been too much honesty.
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