How cuckering becomes policy ! - (((Media))) dares to tell POTUS' HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT INTER RACIAL AFFAIRS ! -      How presidents should speak about racist violence: Lessons from history
Matthew Dallek Yahoo NewsAugust 14, 2017

Critics are rightly castigating President Trump for issuing a series of vague, opaque statements in the wake of white supremacist-fueled violence that rocked Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. In response to the violence that claimed three lives and injured many, Trump said this: “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” before repeating “on many sides,” as if to emphasize that it was really the “many sides” that were at fault.
Trump generated much support from the “alt-right,” including white nationalists, during last year’s presidential campaign.                                                                                                             Even divisive presidents who experienced white supremacist-fueled violence on their watch have often risen to the occasion.                                                                                                    Take (((President Lyndon Johnson’s))) reaction to Alabama troopers beating nonviolent civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965. Eight days later, Johnson delivered an address before a joint session of Congress in which he urged the swift passage of voting rights legislation to defeat the evil of white supremacy with constitutionally inscribed virtues such as equality and justice. “Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, our welfare or our security, but rather to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved nation,” Johnson declared. “The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation.” When he invoked the slogan from the civil rights movement — “We shall overcome” — he left no doubt about where he and the United States stood on the cause of racial equality, even as he recognized the political costs to Democrats that a full-throated embrace of civil rights exacted  https://www.yahoo.com/news/presidents-speak-racist-violence-lessons-history-2-161323806.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/presidents-speak-racist-violence-lessons-history-2-161323806.htm