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Clintons Lose Their Claim On Race Card
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 Clintons Lose Their Claim On Race Card
By Charles Krauthammer"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... It took a president to get it done." —Hillary Clinton, Jan. 7So she said. And then a fight broke out.
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By Charles Krauthammer"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... It took a president to get it done." —Hillary Clinton, Jan. 7So she said. And then a fight broke out.That remarkable eruption of racial sensitivities and racial charges lacked coherence, however, because the public argument was about history rather than what was truly offensive — the implied spam to today.The principal objection was that Clinton appeared to be disrespecting Martin Luther King Jr., relegating him to mere enabler for Lyndon Johnson.But it is certainly true that Johnson was the great emancipator, second only to Abraham Lincoln in that respect.This was a function of the times. King was fighting for black enfranchisement. Until that could be achieved, civil rights legislation could only be enacted by a white president (and a white Congress).That does not denigrate King. It makes his achievement all the more miraculous — winning a permanent stake in the system for a previously disenfranchised people, having begun with no political cards to play.In my view, the real problem with Clinton's statement was the implied historical spam — that the subordinate position King held in relation to Johnson, a function of the discrimination and disenfranchisement of the time, somehow needs recapitulation today when none of those conditions apply.
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