Greg TateArthur Jafa 18 mins · Fundamentally, the current attack on Team DuVernays Selma and its depiction of the MLK-LBJ relationship is on some airy-fairy whitewashing bullsheet. Johnson was no warm fuzzy lover of the negro or of King or anybody else not family--but he did ram through the most radical anti-racist legislation to be passed by the American Congress in a century. Which means he was a complicated mutha nobody wanted to understood but his woman. In backroom politics Johnson was infamous for being a profane unrepentant, nigger-swearing bully. Selma The Movie SPARINGLY nails the complexity of the rageaholic mutha, his major dude deeds,pathetic Dixecrat misdeeds alike--but doesnt even dogg him out like it couldve given the historical record::Johnson biographer Robert Dallek writes that Johnson explained his decision to nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court rather than a less famous black judge by saying, “when I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a nigger.” And these fools want to complain about whether or not King had to push him hard on Voting Rights? STFO.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:08:50 +0000
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