The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

[Antares]

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."
~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One

"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. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

"I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes."
-- Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961.

The Relentless Conservative: The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

Huh, who knew.

 

[Antares]

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Joe Biden

 

[NYcarbineer]

There's a History forum, you know.

 

[rdean]

There's a History forum, you know.

People were different 50 years ago. Back then, Conservatives were Democrats and Republicans believed in science and education. Things have really changed.