So they don't know if he actually said it either. We do know he said this though...“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
He understood the racists and used it to help black people. He may have used language unacceptable today but the civil rights he pushed through was long overdue. And even after that people like Trump tried keeping blacks out of his family's properties.
