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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (52806)	1/18/2018 6:14:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362845

" It is a joke, to make a point." Sorta like how others joke about not letting their kids have black friends or Jewish friends or gay friends? Yeah, it makes a point, but not the one you think it does. "their overt racism that has been in effect my entire life." Their overt racists were mostly called Democrats, until '68 or '92. (Insert obligatory "they were really R's, you can't count them" disclaimer here) Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist. Lyndon Johnson said the word “nigger” a lot. In Senate cloakrooms and staff meetings, Johnson was practically a connoisseur of the word. According to Johnson biographer Robert Caro, Johnson would calibrate his pronunciations by region, using “nigra” with some southern legislators and “negra” with others. Discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, he’d simply call it “the nigger bill.”..... ....Johnson spent the late 1940s railing against the “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves” in East Asia. Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn’t afraid of snakes?) he’d drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it. Once, Caro writes, the stunt nearly ended with him being beaten with a tire iron.