You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
-President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

What policy is President Johnson endorsing in the excerpt above?

a) SSending support to the South Vietnamese people

B) Passage of the Voting Rights Act

C) Escalation of the war in Vietnam

D) Affirmative action for racial minorities