Democrats vs Republicans: the False Dichotomy – Amelia May Johnson

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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

LBJ pushed the civil rights act of 1964 through congress. He said something like "we'll have those niggers voting Democrat for 200 years".

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one of the reasons USA did that was to counter criticisms from the USSR who used whataboutism to complain about USA's racist laws when USA pointed out their abuses. They were also worried about blacks using violent tactics such as those recommended by Malcolm X. LBJ would have known votes didn't matter, look at how he became president in the first place.