You can get cheap chicken wings at cheap bars here too . You are not comparing like with like . <| sep |> he wasn ' t gloating about it , he was making an observation . From the sourceWe were in Tennessee . During the motorcade , he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs . Late that night in the hotel , when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed , he started talking about those signs . I ' ll tell you what ' s at the bottom of it , he said . 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 . This quote is like Lennon ' s bigger than Jesus remark . He was making an accurate observation , not bragging about it .