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In reply to the discussion: I know it can't just be me.. [View all]BumRushDaShow
(144,042 posts)14. Exactly
See... LBJ, who once lived among them (before "marrying up" , famously said the following over 55 years ago, per the below article from Bill Moyers -
WHAT A REAL PRESIDENT WAS LIKE
By Bill D. Moyers November 13, 1988
WHILE Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he gave me a vivid account of that southern schizophrenia he understood and feared. We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/11/13/what-a-real-president-was-like/d483c1be-d0da-43b7-bde6-04e10106ff6c/
By Bill D. Moyers November 13, 1988
WHILE Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he gave me a vivid account of that southern schizophrenia he understood and feared. We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs.
"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he 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 pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/11/13/what-a-real-president-was-like/d483c1be-d0da-43b7-bde6-04e10106ff6c/
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It's fitting that the King of Entitlement would surf to power on those grievances...
kjones
Dec 2016
#70
We still keep hearing the assertion about former Obama voters voting for Trump
BumRushDaShow
Dec 2016
#43
Yep. But they can't stop demographic shift. It's going to happen when they like it or not.
JHan
Dec 2016
#45
I think a Trump presidency will crystallize priorities for many, but the price to pay is still high.
JHan
Dec 2016
#64
The ones that really irritate me are the ones who use the term "working class" as a slam.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2016
#81
Black people get the same treatment the Republicans gave the religious right for years.
brewens
Dec 2016
#82
LOL! I'm sitting here at 18 below wondering where I'm going to be able to find the bucks for heat.
raven mad
Dec 2016
#84
Especially when you consider that nothing Jeremiah Wright said was all that outlandish.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#87