Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a flaming racist

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Make no mistake... LBJ was a racist. But first and foremost, Lyndon Johnson was a staunch Southern conservative segregationist. With the emphasis on "conservative".





Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist. | MSNBC

Lyndon Johnson said the word “******” a lot.

In Senate cloakrooms and staff meetings, Johnson was practically a connoisseur of the word. According to Johnson biographer Robert Caro, Johnson would calibrate his pronunciations by region, using “nigra” with some southern legislators and “negra” with others. Discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, he’d simply call it “the ****** bill.”

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