Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration

CSPAN ^ | April 2, 2005 | cgbgjr

[cgbg]

This was a CSPAN televised event given by someone who has written the only book on this subject.

[cgbg]

Did anyone see this? It was presented at the University of Virginia by some multicultural studies department. I had never read anything about this subject so I wanted to check it out on CSPAN. Woodrow Wilson apparently resegregated the Federal bureaucracy undoing the work of thirty years of Republican administrations. Blacks successfully competed on the Civil Service Exam and had risen to white collar and management positions as a result of hard work in a desegretated environment.

Woodrow Wilson, elected by Southern Democrats, reinstated Jim Crow with separate bathrooms, separate work spaces, downgrading black supervisors, and downgrading black white collar workers to blue collar jobs.

Then he went abroad to tell the rest of the world how they should handle their affairs.

This is the President who created the Federal Reserve Board and planted the seeds of our long dark road to socialism.

The Democratic Party has gone from Jim Crow to Affirmative Action while the Republicans have tried to treat each person equally before the law.

[Bommer]

...which is why blacks vote Democrap in overwealming majority. Minds are truly a terrible thing to waste!

[solitas]

One question: will the race-mongerers now try to use this tome to justify their 'claim' (even if all this happened before the r-m's were born, and the participants were dead before the r-m's were born) that it marked/scarred them for life?

He[ck] - it screwed up MY life too (you prove it didn't)! Gimme my money, my quotas, and my set-asides!

[blakep]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400082366/qid=1112465952/sr=8-25/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i10_xgl14/103-8023159-3998262?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


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[Major Matt Mason]

Wilson is, IMO, one of the worst presidents in the history of this country. In addition to what you mention, he is also responsible for what is now the UN, and I believe the current, heinous income tax system started on his watch. What a terrible legacy for an American President.

[ClearCase_guy]

I note that Amazon has two reviews of this book, and both seem straight out of DU -- horrified that anyone might find fault with a Democrat.

[LibKill]

I am really sorry for all the degradation and slavery.

It all occurred BEFORE my majority (old enough to vote).

Please forgive me.

[cgbg]

One interesting element of this re-discovery of the real Woodrow Wilson is that some blacks in Maryland protested a bridge named after him in Maryland.

The political correctness crowd is going to have a circular firing squad on this issue. :-)

I also want to emphasize the damage that Woodrow Wilson did to our country by reinstituting Jim Crow. By undermining the formation of a black middle class he helped radicalize generations of black leaders into becoming anti-American and anti-white zealots. We are suffering that legacy today in our universities with their racist "political correctness" and racist admissions policies, in the Black Caucus in Congress, and in the various "civil rights" groups that now preach anti-white propaganda.

[solitas]

black leaders into becoming anti-American and anti-white zealots

Redundancy wastes FR's diskspace. :)

[marron]

Exactly. Wilson (Democrat) brought race repression into federal employment and if I remember correctly Coolidge (Republican) repealed it.

Republicans and conservatives in general should never let themselves get maneuvered into defending Jim Crow or the old slave south. Slavery was a Democrat phenomenon, Jim Crow was a Democrat policy, and Republicans were on the right side of this issue from day one right up to the present.

When you view old films of freedom marchers being fire-hosed, its important to be clear that the men holding the hoses were Democrats, every last one. When you read about fire-bombings and lynchings, the attackers were Democrats, every last one.

Color-blind citizenship was our policy all during the bad old days, and it continues to be our policy, we are right where we have always been. Let the Democrats explain Jim Crow. If southern Democrats have crossed the line and joined the Republicans over the years, it still holds; in joining our party they have accepted our view of race relations, which is that you are an American first.

If the modern day DNC can point to a few old dixie-crats who joined the Republicans, they have to deal with the fact that the vast majority remained Democrat. Republicans who are conflicted on the subject get drummed out, whereas Democrats with white robes in their past become senior senators.

[Casloy]

Wilson, like Jimmy Carter, was a complete idiot as a president. This new information only adds to the weight of evidence. If not for Wilson and his stupdity we might not have had WWII. If not for Jimmy Carter and his total lack of understanding of how to use power, we might not have had 9/11. Weak and naive presidents are the gifts the keep on giving.

[LS]

I'm with you Matt. Although you can't blame him for the Income Tax and the Federal Reserve---they were already in the works---he supported them, and under him income tax rates rose from a TOP level of 6% to a top level of 75%, and a bottom level of 1.5% to 25%. After the war, he still wanted to keep them high, leading, in part, to Harding's election. We rate him as one of the worst, too, in "A Patriot's History of the United States."