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[[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said "I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years." While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref>
[[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said "I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years." While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref>
'''Jimmy Carter anf Walter Mondale'''
'''Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale'''
[[File:Carter mondale 1200.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail with the Democratic nominee, [[Walter Mondale]], in 1984.]]
[[File:Carter mondale 1200.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail with the Democratic nominee, [[Walter Mondale]], in 1984.]]
According to ''The Real Jimmy Carter'' by Steven Hayward, [[Jimmy Carter]] did nothing to help the desegregation cause in the South and sometimes did the opposite, and like Bill Clinton, endorsed racist candidates for political offices.
According to ''The Real Jimmy Carter'' by Steven Hayward, [[Jimmy Carter]] did nothing to help the desegregation cause in the South and sometimes did the opposite, and like Bill Clinton, endorsed racist candidates for political offices.