Posted on 06/25/2015 12:14:40 PM PDT by lbryce
Now that we are expunging the legacy of past racism from official places of honor, we should next remove the name Woodrow Wilson from public buildings and bridges. Wilson’s racist legacy — in his official capacity as President — is undisputed. In The long-forgotten racial attitudes and policies of Woodrow Wilson, Boston University historian William R. Keylor provides a useful summary:
[On March 4th, 1913] *SNIP* Washington was flooded with revelers from the Old Confederacy, whose people had long dreamed of a return to the glory days of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, when southern gentlemen ran the country. Rebel yells and the strains of “Dixie” reverberated throughout the city. The new administration brought to power a generation of political leaders from the old South who would play influential roles in Washington for generations to come.
Wilson is widely and correctly remembered — and represented in our history books — as a progressive Democrat who introduced many liberal reforms at home and fought for the extension of democratic liberties and human rights abroad. But on the issue of race his legacy was, in fact, regressive and has been largely forgotten.
Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, Wilson was a loyal son of the old South who regretted the outcome of the Civil War. He used his high office to reverse some of its consequences. When he entered the White House a hundred years ago today, Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African-Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service.
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So, why pick on Woodrow Wilson, political correctness turning him into a pariah, this hungry pack of rabid left-wingers ripping him apart alive in a matter of seconds based on beliefs, perspectives that only reflected the attitude of the times? American history is filled with examples of presidents who by today's standards would be considered far more egregious than the racist label pinned on Wilson. Based on what is happening to Woodrow Wilson, the vicious pack of wild dogs that is 'political correctness' having serendipitously come upon this president as "historical prey" only merely being flushed out via the controversy over the confederate flag, his legacy turned into criminality, his reputation stripped, bared naked as some vicious demagogue, is what I believe to be totally, wholly unfair.
American history is filled with Presidents who as slave owners would be vilified, stripped of their heroic status as forefathers, using the standards in which the wild dog pack of left-wing spawned political correctness is today doing to Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson is easy pickings.
If the principles that infuse "political correctness"with its holier-than-thou righteous indignation were so absolute, let it pursue those most deserved of being called out as "racist", but they won't. They can't. They can't because it would only show the folly that political correctness is.
Need to make the issue about demonrats in general. They WERE the party of slavery.
Why are they allowed to exist?
Clinton and Fulbright? Everything Clinton should also be removed. Heck, they need to close down the Clinton library and massage parlor.
They lie and people believe their lies.
America is going insane.
Time to get serious about erasing the stain of this KKK recruiter from these places:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
Repeat: KKK recruiter
The Democractic Party should change its name as it is a symbol of hate, slavery and traitors who caused the civil war!
Totally agree. The only way to stop a bully is to call their bluff. They may get away with this, but make it Bleed. Them. Dry.
You cannot deal with people like this in good faith. Ever. That’s where conservatives have made their mistake. Do we want to save our country or not?
Everybody who was at the 1924 Klanbake should be a target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Democratic_National_Convention
Name one (other than Andrew Jackson, who I'll give you).
Woodrow Wilson was, apart from Barack Obama, the most racist man who has ever been president of the United States. He was not just a run-of-the-mill white supremacist, he genuinely hated pretty much anyone who was not a white anglo-saxon protestant.
He is also largely responsible for setting up the environment in which Hitler came to power in Germany, and for cosseting the environment in which Ho Ch Mihn came to power in Vietnam.
He was a vile and reprehensible man, by the attitudes and moral standards of any but the most evil of times and societies.
Woodrow Wilson wrote this in 1901. Do you really think it is representative of the prevalent beliefs, perspectives and attitude of the United States as a whole in 1901?
--Woodrow Wilson
Huh?
“Required” reading: “Wilson and Roosevelt(Teddy)” by Judge Andrew Napolitano.
The book your quote was from? Just curious.
"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it." - Winston Churchill
“History has to repeat itself because nobody was listening the first time around.” - Woody Allen
“Whatever circumstances our pasts may hold, we can rise above them into a future shaped by God’s grace.” ― Erwin W. Lutzer,
Actually, what you do here is toss a live grenade into their midst and let them play with it.
I and others have seen Democrats on social media tearing into each other over things like demolishing the Jefferson Memorial. On another thread this morning someone cited similar threads on DU.
The Progressive nutcase faction WILL drag them over the edge on this. Especially if we can troll and taunt them into doing so.
Wilson is a great target I hadn’t thought of. He’s even buried in über-Liberal Washington National Cathedral. Time to dig him up, perhaps?
When I entered grammar school in Washington DC in 1953, the DC School System was still rigidly segregated. Wilson had been out of office for 31 years and none of his successors seemed to mind the situation, either.
(I have no love for Wilson or his policies)
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