1 thought on “the late shift – history lesson with HCR”
President Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly said: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Whether he said that is irrelevant, it’s true regardless. This is being played out everyday by every republiklan in office to this day.
He also is to have stated, “We have lost the South for a generation,” to his aides on the night he signed the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prior to this legislation, the South was a Democratic stronghold. The signing of the Civil Rights Act and the subsequent Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a massive demographic and political shift, eventually transforming the region into a reliable Republiclan base. Hence why they are seen as the party of racists.
These people are willing to deny themselves a better life because they cannot deal with people of color getting the same treatment. Hence why after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, rather than integrate their public school systems, several Southern states and local municipalities permanently closed public schools.
I feel safe in saying, had the US been an exclusive white nation, we’d have a national healthcare system today. But the GQP cannot allow the idea of “others” having such a benefit.
President Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly said: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Whether he said that is irrelevant, it’s true regardless. This is being played out everyday by every republiklan in office to this day.
He also is to have stated, “We have lost the South for a generation,” to his aides on the night he signed the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prior to this legislation, the South was a Democratic stronghold. The signing of the Civil Rights Act and the subsequent Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a massive demographic and political shift, eventually transforming the region into a reliable Republiclan base. Hence why they are seen as the party of racists.
These people are willing to deny themselves a better life because they cannot deal with people of color getting the same treatment. Hence why after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, rather than integrate their public school systems, several Southern states and local municipalities permanently closed public schools.
I feel safe in saying, had the US been an exclusive white nation, we’d have a national healthcare system today. But the GQP cannot allow the idea of “others” having such a benefit.