Posted on 11/25/2015 1:01:37 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Student protesters at Princeton performed a valuable public service last week when they demanded that the administration acknowledge the toxic legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as university president and New Jersey governor before being elected to the White House. He was an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy.
The protesters’ top goal — convincing the university to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the residential complex known as Wilson College — has drawn heavy fire from traditionalists. But the fact that racist policies enacted during Wilson’s presidency are still felt in the country today makes it imperative that the university’s board of trustees not be bound by the forces of the status quo.
Wilson, who took office in 1913, inherited a federal government that had been shaped during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when thousands of African-American men and women passed Civil Service examinations or received political appointments that landed them in well-paying, middle-class government jobs in which they sometimes supervised white workers. This was anathema to Wilson, who believed that black Americans were unworthy of full citizenship and admired the Ku Klux Klan for the role it had in terrorizing African-Americans to restrict their political power.
As the historian Eric Yellin shows in “Racism in the Nation’s Service,†Wilson stocked his government with segregationists who shared his point of view. The man he chose for the postal department, which had the most black employees nationally, had campaigned on the promise that the Democratic Party could be counted on to keep black people out of its own ranks. . .
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Should we stick up for Woodrow Wilson now, or wait till they get to FDR and Truman and then We stick up for Ike?
I am against all the “Civil Rights” laws after 1964. Even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should not have interfered with private property. It should stopped states from FORCING private property owners to practice segregation.
Nixon gave us Affirmative Action and all the horrors that have ensued.
Of course Reagan should be rmemebered (he isn’t) for the good that his economic polices did for those most in need of economic opportunity.
I agree with you. But, if you are talking to blacks they need to know the Republicans are the party of equality and Freedom not the demonrats.
And can we ask the Black Lies Matter people why they havent discovered Margaret Sanger yet. A far more evil racist than Wilson ever was, she wanted to wipe out the black race.
And Hillary STILL worships her!
Why, Black Lies Matter people? Why?
Woodrow Wilson did say something worth repeating before these stupids— “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know what it is today,nor what it is trying to do.... . The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the Nature of God and spiritual nature and needs of men.It is the only guide of life which leads the spirit in the ways of peace...” —Denver rally ,1911 These poor /poorly educated / and led stupids are being led to the destruction of our Country.
Makes me wonder how we won WW 1 with Wilson as commander in chief? Wait, that doesn’t matter. Not important. Not something to talk about. We could be speaking German? Who cares, he was a racist and that’s all that matters.
Wilson was a great man! After all,
“HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR!”
That is, till he got re-elected.
Reminds me of LBJ’s promise NOT to send American boys to SE Asia back in 1964.
NEVER trust a Democrat!
If he was so bad, why did they enroll in the university in the first place? There’s nothing keeping them there. There’s the door. Use it. The greatest punishment (/s)they can administer to Princeton is to find a black university to use their free scholarships and gov grants at.
Probably. They both believed in death and destruction to solve a political dispute.
But...but... Dems luv black folks...don’t they.
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