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, Teddy Roosevelt and Margaret Sanger were all in agreement on that point.
Don't forget Oliver Wendall Holmes who setup the legal basis to instantiate the philosophy in Buck v. Bell: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
Wilson should be a warning to anyone who would support a third party candidate.
The Bull Moose Party gave us Wilson.
Had TR not run we would have had Taft as president and not Wilson.
Students at Princeton, of any color, are clearly privileged just by being students there.
Therefore they should be denied the right to speak, protest, be heard or seen, or fed. In fact, lock them in boxes and play Barry Manilow songs at them until they repent for existing.
It was never unsegregated. Not until Truman.
And had a private screening for Birth of a Nation (based on the novel "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon - a longtime political supporter, friend and former classmate of Wilson's at Johns Hopkins University) in the White House.
Blackjack Pershing got his nickname because he had commanded black troops and was willing to publicly sing their praises. Except “Blackjack” isn’t what other officers called him.
On another note, yes Wilson was a racist even by the standards of his time. But is it fair to judge people of the past by today’s “enlightened” standards? And how would people of the past judge us?
Ha ha!
I love this.
The progressives are out to destroy their own “George Washington.”
The southern states were ready to draw and quarter Teddy Roosevelt for the high crime of allowing Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the White House. Woodrow Wilson was a breath of fresh air to them.
I take you are not a fan of Lincoln? I believe you are right about Wilson and the resegregation of the US army.
I never knew that.
I thought it was also referring to the Kennedy Family.
Which in no way refutes or even addresses my point.
“It was never unsegregated. Not until Truman.”
This Truman?
“In 1911, the year he turned 27, Truman wrote to his future wife, Bess: “I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman.”
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911103&slug=1314805
That you can label Lincoln a "vile racist by any standards" but your precious Confederacy held on to it long after Lincoln was dead and gone.
...and he was a brilliant, really-really smart, intellectual, Progressive genius.
/S/
IMHO
The very same.
Are we going to exhume him and put him on trial?
No. The worst two occupants of our White House were Obama and James Buchanan (I will not give a corrupt thug like Obama the title he has usurped, not even indirectly). One allowed our first civil war to get out of hand by refusing to respond, extending the time it took to recover from slavery and impoverishing the South for more than a generation. And the other is trying to top that by triggering his own civil war, while bankrupting our country and enslaving our children both to the bureaucracy and to debt. Wilson barely makes the bottom four or five presidents.
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