Nothing in the current liberal rap about race and America is reality-based.
Certainly not the scoop on Selma.
Selma controversy grows
The historical fact is that LBJ wanted the march in Selma and urged it upon MLK.
That is the way Julian Bond, Joe Califano, and various historians tell the tale.
And they have tapes of the LBJ/MLK conferences to prove it, if anything beyond their own recollections (JB and JC were both eyewitnesses to this history) is required.
But the movie paints LBJ as a bitter opponent of the march in Selma.
People who were not there like film director Ava Duvernay support the movie's version.
DuVernay fired back on Twitter.
She wrote the “notion that Selma was LBJ’s idea is jaw dropping and offensive” to black citizens and organizations pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement.
I don't doubt it for a moment.
Black America's mind is made up and it doesn't want facts to intrude on its delusions.
They did it all themselves
Black America was already refusing reality on this as far back, at least, as the primary season of 2008 during which controversy flared up over the role of LBJ and other government officials in the civil rights movement in connection with a ludicrous flap about whether some remark Bill or Hillary had made was racist.
Hillary pointed out the crucial role of white officials like LBJ and Earl Warren and was pretty nastily smeared for that.
Update, 1/3/15.
This is what black racism toward whites has done to the pop collective black memory of those years.
Consider other cases in which, in recent decades, it has been demanded by liberals that historians defer to the supposed collective memories of blacks of even more distant events.
Think of those tales of Jefferson and Sally Hemming.
Think of the nonsense purveyed by Black Studies departments under the guise of Black History.
And think of the complete contempt of liberal journalism for truth, in deference to a useful PC narrative.
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