✅ Yes. The former president once said, 'If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.'
, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson had a complicated relationship with issues of race. Born and raised in the South in the early part of the 20th century, Johnson grew up immersed in the prejudices of that time and place, then carried them with him into his nascent political career. MSNBC reporter Adam SerwerFor two decades in Congress he was a reliable member of the Southern bloc, helping to stonewall civil rights legislation.
That's the context of one of the most famous statements on race ever attributed to President Johnson, an off-the-cuffhe made to a young staffer, Bill Moyers, after encountering a display of blatant racism during a political visit to the South. Moyers tells it in the first person:
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