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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Huh? The Confederacy was overthrown before Lincoln died.
The army as a whole was segregated with black soldiers limited to all black regiments. That existed before, during, and after World War I so I don't think that there wouldn't be an army-wide policy on segregating training camps as well.
That would come as a surprise to Jeff Davis and the Confederate soldiers who were fighting after Lincoln's death.
I suspect Washington might even lead that movement, given what the once proud city which bears his name now represents.
He would likely campaign to have it renamed something like "Gomorrah-On-The-Potomac" and be done with the stinking place...
Wilson gave us the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax. Nuff said.
I once ran across a lawsuit from Mississippi, I think it was. A man was accused of fraud because he went and bought something with Confederate money as soon as he had heard that Lee had surrendered but before it was widely known--the implication was that the seller would have refused to accept the Confederate money if he had realized that Lee had already surrendered.
They could always rename it after Booker T. Washington...except that Booker was not radical enough by present-day standards.
Woodrow Wilson was a horrible President in some ways. He was a racist and Klan sympathizer and he helped inflict the horrible Treaty of Versailles. The Klan grew during his Presidency and lynching increased.
That being said, he did get some good workplace safety laws passed for factories, which were dangerous hellholes back in the day.
I think it’s AWESOME libs are targeting one of their own for once.
Appomattox was April 9th. Lincoln died April 15th.
Johnston surrendered April 26, Richard Taylor surrendered May 4th, Kirby Smith surrendered May 26. What's your point?
"but your precious Confederacy held on to it long after Lincoln was dead and gone".
The Confederacy died at Appomattox Courthouse (and the principles of the American Revoloution along with it). You can say it lasted another month because some units hadn't formally surrendered yet if you want. But that hardly supports your remark.
[That being said, he did get some good workplace safety laws passed for factories, which were dangerous hellholes back in the day.]
Wilson’s view of foreign policy was one generally adopted by almost all proceeding presidents.
Wikipedia:
Wilsonianism or Wilsonian are words used to describe a certain type of ideological perspectives on foreign policy. The term comes from the ideology of United States President Woodrow Wilson and his famous Fourteen Points that he believed would help create world peace if implemented.
Common principles that are often associated with “Wilsonianism” include:
*Advocacy of the spread of democracy[1]
*Advocacy of the spread of capitalism[2]
*Opposition to isolationism and non-interventionism[3]
*Pro-imperialism,[4] in favor of intervention to further national self-interest.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsonianism
And what he failed to achieve the Chinamen decided to do for themselves.
I still say that word btw, I also say Negro. And Indian, both kinds! And Oriental, for those who are not bona fide Chinamen.
Booker T Washington was a self hating Uncle tom by today’s SJW standards
One of the biggest boosters of Woodrow Wilson was none other than Richard Milhous Nixon, who in later years dropped his middle name. And least Woodrow kept the middle name but didn’t use the first name “Thomas”.
I think the 16th Amendment had already been ratified maybe days before Wilson took office. He had nothing directly to do with it. The American people are huge backers of income taxes so long as they can “sock it to the rich”.
My grandfather protected Taft. He was in the Secret Service then. He hated Wilson.
That he should be reviled by Progressivism's hopelessly naive children is not something with which we should interfere.
We should instead pop some more popcorn!
What about the two Johnsons, Andrew and Lyndon? Both are strong competitors for the title of worst president. But my vote goes to the incumbent!
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