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Louis has written a fine review of the film Selma, one that makes me want to
see it. The controversy over LBJ is interesting. Johnson's efforts on civil
rights were the high point of his presidency and show what a mainstream
politician who knows what power is and how to wield it can do. What he did
makes Obama, Clinton, and all of the other Dems the Nation types urge us to
support just so pitiful by comparison. Robert Caro gives a pretty exhaustive
account of this part of LBJ's life in the last (but not final) installment of
his monumental biography. Of course, Johnson was a scoundrel and hardly a
radical champion of black power. But at least he had in his deepest memory a
grasp of what it was to be poor and powerless. After college, he taught in a
poor high school with mostly Mexican-American students. He got those kids
achieving.
It is certainly true that Selma matters more than ever now. Overall, the
savagery of this nation hasn't declined much, and only movements like those
spearheaded by MLK and many others have much chance of combating and ending it.
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