[laotzu]

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
-- Democrat Senator Lyndon B. Johnson

[TribalPrincess2U]

Is that a real quote from LBJ?

[txrangerette]

Your point, in quoting LBJ about “these negroes”, is...what?

It isn’t about race, although many of various political persuasions would like it to be.

It’s about preventing vote fraud and preserving and protecting our precious Republic.

As Ben Franklin replied when asked what kind of government the Founders had wrought:

“A Republic, if you can keep it”.