Subject: Re: Reagan Racist
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."

Take this quote: [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]' (The CRA 1957 got torn apart in committee.

Russell supported racial segregation and co-authored the Southern Manifesto with Strom Thurmond. Russell and 17 fellow Democratic Senators, along with one Republican, blocked the passage of civil rights legislation via the filibuster. After Russell's protégé, President Lyndon B. signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law,[9] Russell led a Southern boycott of the 1964 Democratic National Convention.[10] Russell served in the Senate until his death from emphysema in 1971.

But of course what you quote says it was all done for political expediency. This isn't fun pointing this out to you, it's all a partisan game to you. I got taught to really appreciate history by some Americans, Filipinos, and American Filipinos. I watched them and participated in debates on the Philippine American War. What I learned was that I didn't know much history and had deep respect for those that did and could talk intelligently with an even keel. There were little juniors with their favorite axe to grind. I learned to find the historian's historian in the era and read her/him. A lot of what I learned about US history was not flattering at all. And many Filipinos want to nurture grievances, but it became apparent that if you did that, you lost your way.

So LBJ was a product of his Texas time, and spoka dat lingo that all the segregationist/bigots knew back then. It looks like he's appealing to the bad part of Russel's character to pass a bill, and failed at that point because it got destroyed in committee. I know this observation will be lost on you. I wish we had a good US historian here to learn from.