April Ryan Quote
In a November 13, 1988, Washington Post opinion piece titled What a Real President Was Like, Bill Moyers noted that in 1960 in Tennessee after a meeting with local dignitaries, then-Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson said something that rings so true this day: 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.
April Ryan
In a November 13, 1988, Washington Post opinion piece titled What a Real President Was Like, Bill Moyers noted that in 1960 in Tennessee after a meeting with local dignitaries, then-Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson said something that rings so true this day: 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.
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About April Ryan
Formerly, from January 1997 to 2020 Ryan served as a White House correspondent and Washington, D.C., bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks. From 2017 she also appeared on CNN as a political analyst. In May 2017, the National Association of Black Journalists named Ryan as the "Journalist of the Year".