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How is this a racial comment:

“Martin Luther King delivered one of the most profoundly important speeches ever delivered in America … the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. And then he worked with President Johnson to get the civil-rights laws passed because the dream couldn’t be realized until finally it was legally permissible for people of all colors and backgrounds, races and ethnicities to be accepted as citizens,” said Hillary Clinton.

No one person is solely responsible civil-rights reform in America. A lot of events and people brought this change. While most of the credit is due to Martin Luther King, Jr., we should not ignore the contributions of people like John F. Kennedy, Robert Kenndey, and Lyndon B. Johnson. King gave the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. The Kennedy administration in 1960 to 1963 laid the essential groundwork for Civil Rights Act. Much of this was due to Kennedy’s brother and Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s public passion for civil rights in 1962. After John F. Kennedy’s assassination in late November of 1963, Johnson was able to bring the frayed nation together and get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. This was no small feat, as in January of 1963 incoming Alabama governor George Wallace called for “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” to popular appeal in his inaugural address. The mid to late 1960’s felt like another civil war in the US with the north and the south widely divided on the issue of civil rights. Johnson used the public shock of the assassination to get much of Kennedy’s legislative initiatives passed as tribute and legacy to the fallen president. King received the Noble Peace Prize that year of 1964. In 1965, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. In 1968 King was assassinated, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by Johnson. This act picked up where some of the act of 1964 left off, prohibiting discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.

It should be noted that in 1957 The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was proposed by Dwight Eisenhower. It was primarily a voting rights bill and was the first civil legislation enacted by Republicans in the US since Reconstruction. After it was proposed to Congress by Eisenhower, Southern senators sustained the longest filibuster in history to keep it from becoming law. It was never passed. The proposed Act of 1957 was the result of many things, with the NAACP’s litigation and lobbying chief among them.

This is a racial comment:

DON IMUS: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and—
BERNARD McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos, Tom.
DON IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there. I’m gonna tell you that now, man, that’s some—woo.

More info:
African-American Civil Rights Timeline