As opposed to Democrats who glad-hand blacks without ever doing anything significant to help them.

Because anything that even smells of social spending will get past the GOP-held house or a GOP filibuster in the Senate.

What Steam said.

You don't get the call Dems do-nothings when you Chicken Little THE END OF AMERICA every time they try to pass health insurance reform or raise the minimum wage.

Actually, you could be thankful for it not being that dickhead in any capacity.

No, weren't you listening? The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act, apparently.

To a certain extent, the Republicans can claim the Civil Rights Act for their own. But they tend not to, which tells you something about where they're coming from.

They can lay claim to it in that, proportionally speaking, more Republicans than Democrats supported the Civil Rights Act ... but that's only because the South was almost completely Democratic, which meant a huge chunk of the Democrats were inherently opposed to the CRA. But if you're careful to compare Northern D's to Northern R's, and Southern D's to Southern R's, you'll find that Democrats in each region voted more heavily for the CRA than the comparable Republicans did.

We're still fighting the battle of the Civil Rights Act. Disillusioned Democratic racists eventually drifted over to the Republican Party, which barely even attempts to conceal its contempt for non-whites any longer. But this has meant the Democrats have been at a demographic disadvantage for decades, which is only slowly starting to turn around. Republicans are responding to that by cutting away at the Voting Rights Act, thus making it harder for minorities to vote.

As for LBJ, in the end less than 10% of Southern Democrats ended up voting for the Civil Rights Act, so frankly I wonder how he ever got a reputation as a master arm-twister. Dude couldn't even make his own party follow him.

He's trying to do outreach to blacks without first trying to identify with blacks. I find myself wondering if he's aware he's mostly reinforcing white solidarity: is that his intention or is it simply all he's capable of?

Wait, is this serious then?

You should watch the whole thing.

I don't wanna, I'm scared.

Let me get my courage up...

*sigh* Okay, I did.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.

In fact, it's pretty lame.

He's basically saying that Republicans aren't racist because they're not, and Democrats are racist because they are, while providing absolutely no evidence for either argument.

At the end of the day, it's what Brendon Small would call a W-O-T: Waste O' Time.

5 lame stars.

I guess they don't teach everyone that in 6th grade history like our history teacher did.

Actually, if you do some research on John Ratzenberger's political beliefs, he's not far from this guy.