In '65, LBJ was the person who brought Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Head Start, the Job Corps and aid to education. By '68, he was the person who sent minorities to Vietnam in far greater proportions, brought them unemployable, gave them no GI Bill, refused to tax corporations, and sent inflation soaring. Things were never what they seemed with LBJ.
This was a conscious speech. President LBJ did something Obama could not do. With tears in my eyes that I can say, we are one country and we have to live together. "Our destiny is tied together and we have one cord". We should love one another. And let no one brings us division.
President Johnson could have went down as America's greatest president since President Franklin D. Roosevelt if he hadn't furthered America in the the Vietnam war
Try reading: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. By:Mehrsa Baradaran. A great book, that enlightened this Generation Xer, and brought me here.
Bryan Day Non slave owners who are still benefiting from slavery paying decendents of slaves their fair share of the profits, that would have been passed down to them had the slaves been properly compensated to begin with.
@@JustCallMeJaph Non slave owners benefiting from slavery how? Trickle down slavery benefits isn't a thing. Wealth earned by slave hands was not spread around and after the Civil War and the burning of the south wiped any notion of _benefiting from slavery by proxy._ But please do tell.
That's what's sad. Johnson was so fed up with America, that he didn't even bother to run for another term. Once he announced this King and Kennedy were assassinated and the nation was in an uproar over the Vietnam War. In May of 1970 you had The Kent State Massacre and the nation shifted its attention to ending the War. After which you had Watergate and "The Great Society" was forgotten.
If you look at his policies... ASIDE from the Vietnam War... and thats a big aside... he's the last progressive president. And the most infuriating thing about white Americans who want to go back to "these days" (i.e. Tea Party)... these were the days of liberal Democratic led prosperity... not conservatism. But back on topic. He lost support. Remember, Kennedy was challenging him for the nomination. When you have someone challenge you as a sitting president... you've lost ur base.
Scott Bayley Color was not commonly used in film, or television, during that time period! January 12th, 1950 was the first time color was used in television, but very limited because of technology! Not until the mid 1960s did film and television actually start using color, in film and television production!
A President far greater then credit given. The foundation of any society is the family and that has been the failure of what is plaguing the African American community.
