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 Jerseyâs governor and the 28th president of the United States. Among other things, the students are demanding that Wilsonâs 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 nationâs 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 â including John Abraham Davis, my paternal grandfather. . .
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An early insider-trading case? LOL!
The stupid should lose in all such cases!
Everyone is a racist by today’s New York Times standards if you’re white and Christian
I’m a racist for sure
Let’s just kill all the whites so the non whites can have it
I can tell you where that will lead
The Chinese and Japanese will fight over who eats first
Everyone else will be food or labor
It depends on your scoring criteria; this is a tough competition. But you're right that the thug currently occupying our White House is uniquely gifted when it comes to evil.
Oh, and the hospital in Chester, PA where I was born is at 9th and Wilson Sts. (but that street probably *isn't* named for Potus 28. :)
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You say the Confederacy died at Appomattox. But most Southerners would say it lived on, even to this day. The Confederate flag has been a rallying symbol for any number of Southern causes.
You misspoke. It's not the end of the world.
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