He must be thinking of all those Republicans who filibustered civil rights bills during the '60s. Ooops, sorry, those were democRATS doing that.
Maybe he's thinking of that evil Republican George Wallace blocking school integration. Ooops again, he was a democRAT too.
Maybe he's thinking about the only ex-Klansman in the U.S. Senate. Darn, missed on that one too.
Is there a pattern here?
JFK made one phone call -- to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Birmingham jail -- and it set black Americans' political loyalties for a generation. Other then the sponsorship of civil rights legislation (which was not small thing), the Democrat Party has historically been the biggest barrier to black opportunity in the nation.