President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who grew up in the South and understood the politics of racism
from the inside, saw it in part as a ploy to divide and conquer.
'President Lyndon B. Johnson 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."'
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/
((Read the whole article; lots to learn. We need to learn a few lessons about breaking the back of repug propaganists, as it's happening now, JUST happened (to cause us to lose House seats and fail to gain Senate seats.) )) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214556594
ananda
(28,860 posts)ive seen it firsthand throughout my life.
It also plays into the confirmation bias in
propaganda news that racists feed off of.
Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Out of readily available parts! Why do you think that English convicts were "transported" to Georgia? Need slavedrivers, don'tcha?
elleng
(130,905 posts)but it's lasted.
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)It's a feature of "noble birth" - a certain amount of cruelty is expected, to "do what needs to be done"
Nitram
(22,801 posts)Democrat.
IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)around his ranch drinking beer. He was a dandy. No doubt about it.
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