re: Sick of Obama telling everyone how great LBJ was

Do i think the great society was specifically created with this in mind? No, but I do beleive that many politicians have seen how it has developed and are doing nothing to fix it because they have seen how they have benefited from keeping people dependent on
on the government.

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The Great Society has been a massive failure in my estimation, but do you people really believe it was created specifically to keep 10-13% of the population "down". Trillions over the last 50 years just to keep blacks democratic--though most blacks live in states that go red year in and year out?

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Have you ever seen LBJ's quotes on the matter?

You have the one about "I'll have these n%($$ voting Democrat for the next 100 years"

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“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.”—LBJ

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I'm saying that is was LBJ's purpose for creating the Great Society. I'm not saying that's why we have it today..I just don't think people realize it's intent originally and how detrimental it has been to not only the black community, but many other minority communities.