Deserves credit for what he’s done for civil rights enforcement? What the hell would that be, the triumph of voting intimidation by the black panthers, and telling them, now go home and don’t do that again? Oh, I remember, white folks, by definition, can’t be discriminated against, its a material impossibility.
Basically, he’s saying that he, as a black politician, cannot be held accountable for malfeasance in office.
To do so would be racist.