This quote has been circulating for decades.
Rating:A viral quote circulating since the 1990s attributes the following statement to Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States: "I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years":
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.
As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture. The"MacMillan" referenced above was Ronald M. MacMillan, a former Air Force One steward Kessler interviewed for. The steward provided many of the juiciest tidbits in a relentlessly juicy compendium of gossip, including the revelation that Johnson liked to parade around without his clothes on:
But when asked for her version of events, Luci Johnson wrote, "I do not now, nor have I ever, subscribed to such feelings or such language and therefore could not use it."
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