... Blacks were doing great until LBJ’s “Great Society.” Their divorce rate was below that of whites. Their incarceration percentage mirrored their percentage of the overall population, about 17%. (It’s usually about 90% today.) When he signed the legislation and with MLK standing behind him LBJ said, “We’ll have these n***ers voting for us for the next hundred years.” ...
32 posted on 07/14/2023 10:54:14 AM PDT by MacNaughton