How many Republicans from 1950 - today were/are "civil rights heroes" ?
More than I care to name. President Trump, for one, comes to mind. The largest movement of Black Democrat voters ever, switched to Republican when he announced running for president. He is the first president since Lincoln, to actually help the Black communities. He was behind getting the abortion clinics, purposely built next to Black communities, torn down. That was genocide sponsored by who? The Democrats! He also got those built next to American Indian communities, torn down. Why were, under Democrat rule, the majority of abortion clinics built next to Black and American Indian communities? Genocide of those they hated, clear and simple.
A civil rights leader isn't one like LBJ that says one thing and does another. The guy was a racist of the worst kind. He was like the guys of old that traded Indians, worthless beads for valuable beaver pelt. Does a civil rights leader drive around back roads in Texas looking for Black kids to throw half full beer cans at? This is documented fact that LBJ did this. One documented event records that he cut a gash in the forehead of a little Black girl, walking to her grandmas. She was bleeding and the driver asked if they should stop, and LBJ said hell no. I know this to be true because one of my great aunts, daughters, that worked for LBJ, was in his car that day.
She excused his actions as he was just drunk. She remained a life long Democrat, despite knowing LBJ was a racist. Another great aunt (by marriage), a Black woman, would say at family gatherings when some cousin started talking about civil rights and what a great leader LBJ was, "Come over here child so I can slap the stupid out of you."
LBJ was behind the murder of JFK. one of a few Democrats that didn't support handing Black folks or any folks, welfare handouts. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Welfare handouts to Blacks, was how one could appear non racist, yet be racist by destroying the close hard working Black families. Get Black folks in the projects, with no incentive to work, with bars and clubs overflowing with alcohol and drugs, and destroy the wonderful Black families that came from suffering and overcame slavery.
They had a small plot of land, a mule, chickens, maybe a pig, and lived in a shack usually sided with tar paper. They were happy. I remember when I visited relatives in the East Texas, backwoods, seeing these places. I saw them again, after LBJ gave them cash and the animals were gone, their gardens were grown over, an a pink cadliac was by the house. The men were seen in town in suits and the women in fancy dresses and hats.
They were robbed of their roots and freedom that their forefathers and a lot of others fought to get for them. Robbed of their way of living by one racist, LBJ. I am independent, because of the infiltration of the Republicans by Democrats that wanted to change the narrative of the KKK, a Democrat oraganization.
I have first hand knowledge of racism and the Democrat party. No meme, video, or book will ever change what I know to be fact. When one tells me, "Well you didn't really see what you think you saw," I have to quote my great aunt, "Come over here so I can slap the stupid out of you."