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Good ole Colbert King. Still wanting to keep “them white folk” out of the “White House”, even on tours.

Love the ingrained racism of WaPost’s two black leftist columnists, King and Eugene Robinson. So much “brotherly love” eminating from them, like radiation from a Fukeshima reactor. One problem, they left out some of that “brother” stuff.

The second American soldier I met in Vietnam was a Honduran who wanted to become a U.S. citizen. And there was that very brave black US Army Military Advisor I met out in the Wild West area of Chau Duc Province along the Cambodian border, in a mortar pit at the bottom of Chau Phu Mountain (after an airstrike hit a VC cave).

If you weren’t there, STFU! Our men and women earned the right to be in any US park int he country, esp. the WW2 and Vietnam memorial parks.

Got news for you Colbert. Blacks fought very well in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. They should NEVER be barred from any war memorial, nor should any other American servicemen or women. This also included the many foreign citizens who joined our Armed Services to fight and earn their US citizenship.

The great progressive hero Woodrow Wilson used the KKK as his version of Organizing for America. Republican Calvin Coolidge personally undertook a purge to get klansmen out of our government. Wilson also increased the existing segregation of blacks "for their own good". Coolidge got nasty letters from lots of democrats over his desegregation moves and the purge of Klansmen but his one response was perfect.

During the war 500,000 colored men and boys were called up under the draft, not one of whom sought to evade it. [As president, I am] one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution