Posted on 11/21/2015 9:52:24 AM PST by celmak
On the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 2013 I wrote an op-ed published in the Richmond Post-Dispatch reminding its readers of the retrograde racial views of our 28th president that few Americans were aware of (except for historians of the Wilson presidency who have mentioned it in their works). Later, professor Randy Barnett of the Georgetown University Law Center quoted extensively from my article to call for the removal of Wilson's name from all public buildings in the country.
The issue of Wilson's racial views and policies then virtually disappeared from the public discourse until students at Princeton University occupied the president's office two days ago and demanded that all references to the university's most famous faculty member and President be erased from the campus. As of this writing, the university has agreed to consider the renaming of buildings and organizations at Princeton that bear Wilson's name.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
History with all its warts needs to remain what it is/was for the total aspect of previous actions and thought. No erasing HISTORY. It is vital and important for all to see how time changes thought and what the results are or will be. God has blessed America.
We play a part and have the responsibility to fill our role. “ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Christianity.
And Margaret Sanger. All these people, “progressives”.
Maggie was the Mother of African-American infanticide.
I look forward to the day we scrub all memorials to the Terrorist in Chief.
Exactly. As an example from science, Isaac Newton is considered one of the greatest - if not the greatest - scientist of all times.
Yet Newton knew nothing about radio transmission, something that every kid today has some awareness of. Since Newton was so ignorant of that key topic, should Newton be struck from the list of great scientists?
He also betrayed the free Poles to Stalin, during the war, not just Yalta. He wouldn't acknowledge them. Many were butchered. He was stupid, evil, or both.
Black lives matter needs to protest the Dem headquarters and denounce its history of racism, slavery and murder of black people!!!
The Republican party has nothing like that in its history.
I was wondering if anyone would notice that line; I nearly through up my breakfast on that one.
EXACTLY !!!
Facts are stubborn things.
The fact is, if you go back and check the roll call vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, you will see that proportionately more Republicans than Democrats supported that legislation.
If you study the legislative efforts involved in passing that law, you will find that a key man was REPUBLICAN Senator Everett Dirksen, who was a key man in breaking the Southern Democrat filibuster of that legislation.
A REPUBLICAN President, Eisenhower, sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce school integration at Little Rock Central High School.
I’ve never understood why Republicans get NO CREDIT at all regarding civil rights issues, and why Democrats in their revisionist history, have somehow convinced so many that they are the true party of equality and civil rights, when certain facts as I noted here say otherwise.
The American people don't know this and never will.
Didn’t Taft beat him to the punch on that!
Are there any?
John C Calhoun
7th Vice President of the US
US Secretary of State
US Secretary of War
US Senator from South Carolina
US Representative from South Carolina
On the Senate floor on February 6, 1837, Calhoun asserted that slavery was a "positive good."
He rooted this claim on two grounds: white supremacy and paternalism.
All societies, Calhoun claimed, are ruled by an elite group which enjoys the fruits of the labor of a less-privileged group.
"I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good-a positive good... I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age. Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe-look at the sick, and the old and infirm slave, on one hand, in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress, and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poorhouse... I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other."
Where are the calls to rename Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis?
When will Yale University rename the undergraduate residential college "Calhoun College"
When will Yale University remove the sculpture of Calhoun on the exterior of Harkness Tower?
When will Clemson University relocate from its current location, Calhoun's Fort Hill plantation?
When will the US Senate remove Calhoun from its list of the "five greatest senators of all time"?
People these days are nuts. Leave it alone. I do agree liberals like Wilson do need to be exposed for what they were. Mainly they were human, with likes and dislikes just like us today. They were not perfect. Our alternative I guess is to name all buildings with a number, then no one can be offended.
“...retrograde racial views of our 28th president...”
Were his views really “retrograde” or were they correct?
By whose standards are they “retrograde,” the standards of the extreme left, and their current manifestation, Black Lives Matter?
This is a tough one for me. He was a racist socialist academic Democrat that got the U.S. into WW-I, then had the temerity to have a stroke and let his unelected wife run the country for almost a couple of years. So yeah, he deserves to be forgotten but NOT purged from the pages of American history. He should be held up to these vermin as a model for what they are attempting to foist on America. Now... if they will include LBJ and the current Executive Sphincter, I’m all for it.
destroy all history before January 20, 2009 ?
Wilson was a socialist and a racist. IIRC, he ordered the formerly desegregated military to be segregated.
-PJ
By whose standards are they “retrograde,†the standards of the extreme left, and their current manifestation, Black Lives Matter?
Huh? Is that sarcasm?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.