from LBJ and Civil Rights to Trump and Free Speech Rights

[progressive hunter]

thats not a vote,,,

No Shit Sherlock

The buck stops there
LBJ signed the legislation

still doesnt mean he voted for it and wasnt a racist that destroyed the black community with his great society program,,,

How does helping people with healthcare, education, jobs training and a safety net destroy them?

the results speak for themselves,,,and the goal was votes not care

What results?

That poor people have healthcare, food and a place to live?
That they have access to education, job training and jobs placement?

they had all that before,,,,

 

[rightwinger]

No Shit Sherlock

The buck stops there
LBJ signed the legislation

still doesnt mean he voted for it and wasnt a racist that destroyed the black community with his great society program,,,

How does helping people with healthcare, education, jobs training and a safety net destroy them?

the results speak for themselves,,,and the goal was votes not care

What results?

That poor people have healthcare, food and a place to live?
That they have access to education, job training and jobs placement?

they had all that before,,,,

No they didn’t. Private charity was a hodgepodge of benefits dependent on contributions and the region in which you lived

 

[Pogo]

There is no bigger vote than signing it into law

thats not a vote,,,

No Shit Sherlock

The buck stops there
LBJ signed the legislation

still doesnt mean he voted for it and wasnt a racist that destroyed the black community with his great society program,,,

How does helping people with healthcare, education, jobs training and a safety net destroy them?

the results speak for themselves,,,and the goal was votes not care

"Votes"?

Democrats already had the black vote. Since the 1930s. No Sprinkles, the goal was civil rights.

Once LBJ was in the White House rather than the Senate he had a lot more power to do that. Matter of fact civil rights leaders weren't sure they could trust him being a Texan having allowed previous bills to be watered down so they'd get something through. He put his pen where his mouth was and the rest is history.

 

[Dick Foster]

When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson’s telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any issues with this trip.

All three employees were black.


One year, he asked the three employees to take his dog, Beagle, back to Austin with him. According to Robert A. Caro in Master of the Senate, one employee hesitated, explaining:

“It’s tough enough to get all the way from Washington to Texas. We drive for hours and hours. We get hungry. But there’s no place on the road we can stop and go in and eat. We drive some more. It gets pretty hot. We want to wash up. But the only bathroom we’re allowed in is usually miles off the main highway. We keep goin’ ‘til night comes – ‘til we get so tired we can’t stay awake anymore. We’re ready to pull in. But it takes another hour or so to find a place to sleep.

“You see, what I’m saying is that a colored man’s got enough trouble getting across the South on his own, without having a dog along.”

In Johnson’s telling, hearing this story was jarring enough to permanently convince him of the necessity of protecting his employees – and every other African-American – from discrimination.

We, as a society, do not have to allow private companies to violate Americans’ civil rights.

Guess what this is not the 1950's and the problem no longer exists, the Dixiecrats (democrats) are no longer running things, so why keep harping on the past? They are no longer gassing and burning jews in Germany either.
So let's deal with the problems we are confronted with today instead of continuing to dwell on problems that have already been solved.

 

[whitehall]

It's ironic that LBJ's "great society" all but destroyed the Black family structure in forty years. Like everyone else Black people wanted jobs but LBJ gave them welfare.

 

[rightwinger]

It's ironic that LBJ's "great society" all but destroyed the Black family structure in forty years. Like everyone else Black people wanted jobs but LBJ gave them welfare.

You almost got it right
Black people wanted jobs. They had flocked to the cities for well paying manufacturing jobs. Those jobs enabled black men to marry and support a family. Those jobs left the cities leaving behind those who were too poor and unskilled to relocate

Welfare was a remedy for those left behind

 

[whitehall]

When LBJ's "war on poverty was enacted the poverty rate was around 20%. After forty years and trillions of dollars invested in federal programs the poverty rate declined by about three points. In 1964 about 75% of Black babies were born in two parent families. By 2012 about 72% of Black babies were born out of wedlock and the abortion rate for Blacks is about ten times greater than white mothers. Two years after LBJ's "war on poverty" was enacted the Country erupted in racial riots. LBJ's approval rating went from 70% to less than 35% and just when we needed leadership in the Vietnam conflict LBJ failed us again announcing that the threw in the towel and would no longer seek reelection.