LBJ was one of the best and cagiest politicians and presidents America has ever known. He was a consistent racist and fought Civil Rights legislation, but as the Republican president and war hero Dwight Eisenhower pushed the 1957 Civil Rights legislation Johnson became convinced he needed to throw African Americans a bone, not unlike modern day Democrats who keep blacks on a short, tight leash. Today he is hailed and admired for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And children are not taught an accurate version of U.S. history. To the victor belongs the archives, as we librarians say.
"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."
Johnson was recorded on a White House taped (and saved) conversation claiming, “I’ll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.” How true and perceptive.
http://www.fdfny.org/blog/2011/09/18/these-uppity-negroes-lbj/
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If that conversation was recorded and saved, why is it that no one has ever been able to actually substantiate the quote?
I was able to find it, and from the way I remember how coarse LBJ was, it sounds just like him. Liberals can't find the roots of the KKK (Democrats) either.
Hi, do you have a link to that LBJ audio?
What are you talking about: "Liberals can't find the roots of the KKK (Democrats) either."?
We know with full well that the KKK came from the southern Democrats. That was then, this is now. Catch up.
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Well I'm sorry but there's so my bull sh!t on here I'm wishing I'd brought my hip boots! To begin with, the 'quote' supposedly made by LBJ & "documented" on tape, never was said and isn't on tape for that very same reason.
#2. The KKK was NOT started by the Democratic Party. It was started by a bunch of religious zealots as a fraternity...
Historians agree it was founded by a handful of Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tenn. as a social fraternity and it quickly changed into a violent hate group that terrorized newly empowered black AND white Republicans in the South.
Keeping one other important thing in mind here - the Republican Party of that time is who the Democratic Party is now!!! So reverse the blame if you feel there is blame to be handed out. Suffice to say, hate was alive and well back then, much as I see it being alive and well right here on this page!
Ginger, here's the source. A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner. And of course, there's the recent history of former KKK members in the Democrat Party even in the 21st century who used the KKK to build their base and career.
Ginger is drowning in the Kool-ad.
http://www.newsninja2012.com/stop-allowing-democrats-to-steal-proud-republican-history-fight-back-with-these-dates-and-facts-its-time-to-stand-and-fight-back/
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Actually Ginger is right -- the KKK was started by six Confederate veterans. It was never connected with a political party. I got here seeking out a source for that alleged LBJ quote. I haven't found one either. Looks like another internet myth.
Lot of that going around.
Unknown: Keep looking. Perhaps it's the same source Harry Reid's been using to malign Romney, Tea Party and the Koch brothers? Or the one who sites Democrat confederate veterans. If you troll using the name Unknown (which is your right on the internet) hard to tell where these come from. But I lived through the LBJ years and he was even more clever with the lies than Obama.
@Norma - how is it "trolling" to simply state a fact?? Your argument amounts to "because I think so".
The fact remains, NO ONE can document this quote. We hear endless claims of "I know a guy who says he saw it" -- not good enough. The fact is, unsourced is unsourced.
I used the anonymous tag because I don't care to be bothered signing up for YET ANOTHER website - OK?
My response holds.
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