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Senator Byrd was a KKK grand wizard and lifelong Democrat. LBJ said terrible things about blacks. No, it's not simple to reassign blame. There's enough to go

Senator Byrd was a KKK grand wizard and lifelong Democrat. LBJ said terrible things about blacks. No, it's not simple to reassign blame. There's enough to go around.

mhh__ 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20160727193022/http://action.naacp.org/page/-/washington%20bureau/108thCongress.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160727193022/http://action.naa... 100% in line with the NAACP by the time he died. It is unbelievably naive to reduce Robert Byrd to that classification, or dare I say wilfully ignorant. He also wasn't a Grand Wizard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__BaztE3EII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__BaztE3EII Obama wouldn't have said this if he was a racist to his deathbed. LBJ is a more complicated question. He was a man of his time, but he is also a key figure in bludgeoning the civil rights act through congress. Whether he did so out of a desire for justice or power, we'll never know.
- Spooky23 6y ago
  Check out the Robert Caro books on LBJ. I’d definitely argue “justice”, with a serious helping of insecurity.