Posted on 11/24/2015 10:55:44 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that the university confront the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as its president before becoming New Jersey’s governor and the 28th president of the United States. Among other things, the students are demanding that Wilson’s name be removed from university facilities.
Wilson, a Virginia-born Democrat, is mostly remembered as a progressive, internationalist statesman, a benign and wise leader, a father of modern American political science and one of our nation’s great presidents.
But he was also an avowed racist. And unlike many of his predecessors and successors in the White House, he put that racism into action through public policy. Most notably, his administration oversaw the segregation of the federal government, destroying the careers of thousands of talented and accomplished black civil servants — including John Abraham Davis, my paternal grandfather. . .
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“Wilson, a Virginia-born Democrat, is mostly remembered as a progressive, internationalist statesman,...”
Wow, amazing they printed those words in the NY Times.
I guess we have to give the BLM group “stopped clock” credit for being right about something. Woodrow Wilson was a pig.
I feel the same about Jackson and the forced Indian Removal.
Wilson was the worst president in US history. Yes, that includes Zero.
My Grandfather voted for Taft.
By today’s crazy standards I’d guess Abe Lincoln would be considered a racist
Next up, George Washington, and the movement to remove “Washington” from “Washington D.C.”
In spite of this barbaric cruelty (of about 140 years ago) I understand several things.1) British people of *today* cannot...and *must* not...be blamed for that policy.2) I am far happier...and far *luckier*...to have been born in the US rather than Ireland.
So I'd say to the author of this piece...GET OVER IT!
And wasn't it Wilson who resegregated the US Army?
I loathe Woodrow Wilson.
But what I loathe far more is the Mao-style erasure of American history and heritage by these self-righteous modern-day snowflakes and pajama-boys.
Remember when Cankles likened herself to Wilson?
Abe Lincoln was a racist by any standard.
Thanks for chiming in, Whoopi.
I demand that ALL students WHITE and BLACK and ASIAN and HISPANIC immediately withdraw from Princeton and every other college as they are all guilty of racism , bigotry, prejudice, homophobiaa, heterophobia and LGATXYZ.
There that solves our college problem as well as student demands for free tuition.
By today's crazy standards I'd guess __________ would be considered a racist.
Fill in that blank with absolutely anyone, and I'm sure you'd get many vocal lefties to support it. Because that's what lefties do. They see racism everywhere, and will accept no reasoning to the contrary.
And even other lefties are not immune. As the old saying goes, the Revolution eats its children.
These idiots need to quit worrying about what happened yesterday, and so long ago, and start worrying about what is going to happen tomorrow.
You can’t change the past, but you can influence the future.
Well, at least one good thing comes out of this Black Lives Matter lunacy. The Dems are finally, at least in some small way, being forced to face their racist past. All their heroes are racist KKK sympathizers. The Dems were, are and always have been the Party of Race.
If that was the case they could have gone to Australia.
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