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> But we're a country that elected a racist President... Lyndon B. Johnson?

• aaron-lebo 9y ago
  He was important to getting civil rights legislation passed in 1964. He also taught poor Mexican kids when he was younger. He was a lot of things, but racist isn't fair.
• Spooky23 9y ago
  LBJ was a odd duck. I suggest that you read one of Robert Caro’s Biographies of him. He was many things, but I don’t think racist was one of them. He was mentored politically by southern racists, but betrayed them epically, indirectly creating the modern GOP in the process.