Krauthammer: Black Dreams, White Liberals

The Washington Post ^ | January 18, 2007 | Charles Krauthammer

[vetvetdoug]

Didn’t LBJ make a statement after he signed the Civil Rights Bill that said (paraphrased) that he just guaranteed the votes of the N****** to vote Democrat for decades to come?

[wideminded]

In my view, the real problem with Clinton's statement was the implied historical analogy -- that the subordinate position King held in relation to Johnson, a function of the discrimination and disenfranchisement of the time, somehow needs recapitulation today when none of those conditions apply.

Exactly. Hillary's statement didn't make any sense to begin with. She was comparing herself with LBJ and Obama with King, but she didn't give any reason why Obama would not end up as president instead of herself.

[wideminded]

Didn’t LBJ make a statement after he signed the Civil Rights Bill that said (paraphrased) that he just guaranteed the votes of the N****** to vote Democrat for decades to come?

IIRC what he actually said was that the Democratic party had lost the South for decades to come.

[april15Bendovr]

“The King-Johnson analogy is dead because the times are radically different. Today an African American can be in a position to wield the emancipation pen — and everything else that goes along with the presidency: from making foreign policy to renting out the Lincoln Bedroom (if one is so inclined). Why should African American dreams still have to go through white liberals?”

Good Question