Posted on 07/27/2020 7:48:38 AM PDT by SJackson
He missed a few Democrats.
If President Trump is really a “racist,” as Joe Biden claims, he is one of the strangest racists who ever lived: before the coronavirus hit, black and Hispanic unemployment was at record low levels, the President has repeatedly hailed the achievements of black Americans, and Trump himself, before he entered politics as an unapologetic, non-establishment Republican, was widely respected even by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for his work for the black community. But none of that matters to Joe Biden or whomever is putting words in his mouth: they want us to believe that Trump is a racist, indeed, the first racist President, because for years they’ve been destroying Republicans with this charge, however false it may be. Why stop now? But Biden has missed a few Democrats.
Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster recounts that progressive hero Woodrow Wilson, for example, was born in Virginia a bit more than four years before the Civil War broke out. Throughout his life, he retained the racist attitudes he learned in his youth, and when he became president, he made them U.S. government policy. In 1915, the notorious film The Birth of a Nation became the first motion picture to get a screening in the White House; the film portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroes, denigrated blacks in numerous ways, and quoted Wilson as a respected authority.
Wilson was also quoted decrying the supposed “policy of congressional leaders” to “put the white South under the heel of the black South.” In response, Wilson went on, as quoted in the film: “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”
The showing of The Birth of a Nation was indicative of Wilson’s attitudes: during his administration, government departments in Washington were segregated.
Rating America’s Presidents also shows how another Democrat, James Buchanan, presided over the dissolution of the Union in the years leading up to the Civil War, appealing to the South not to secede by adopting a full-hearted, enthusiastic endorsement of slavery and all it represented. On March 6, 1857, two days after Buchanan took office, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, published its infamous ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case that had been brought by Dred Scott, a slave who had been taken into free territory and argued that, as a result, he was now free. The court voted 7–2 against Scott. In his opinion, Taney wrote that blacks were a “subordinate and inferior class of beings” who “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”
Buchanan strongly endorsed the decision. However, the Dred Scott decision was fundamentally incoherent. As Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis noted in his dissent, blacks at the beginning of the republic had the right to vote in five states; how, then, could Taney declare that they were not and had never been intended to be citizens? (This was long before the idea became fashionable that non-citizens should vote in American elections and receive the fruit of American taxpayers’ labor.) But Buchanan had neither the wit nor the imagination to think through the implications of that fact, even if he had been inclined to do so.
At that time, the Kansas Territory had two governments: one in Topeka that outlawed slavery and enjoyed the support of a majority of Kansans and another in Lecompton that was pro-slavery. When the Lecompton government sent a proposed pro-slavery state constitution to Washington, Buchanan accepted it, despite the fact that he was committed to the principle of popular sovereignty and that slavery would almost certainly have been voted down in a free and fair election in Kansas. The president tried to win support for the Lecompton Constitution in Congress with a variety of favors and perks, but the House voted it down anyway. Buchanan kept pushing for Kansans to accept it, offering them all manner of inducements also, but they, too, voted it down. They didn’t want slavery, no matter how determined President Buchanan was that they have it.
Joe Biden doesn’t know and almost certainly doesn’t care about any of this, and probably didn’t even when he was of sound mind. American history, the record of our successes and our missteps, and of our struggles and sacrifices to create the freest society the world has ever known, is of no importance whatsoever -- indeed, it is actively offensive -- to the Leftists who are determined to “fundamentally transform” this free society into one that is decidedly unfree. That is why it is all the more important for patriots to arm themselves about our nation’s history, so that we can defend it more effectively and beat back the opportunistic and corrosive lies of Biden and his handlers. What we do not know, we do not value. What we do not value, we will lose.
Trump needs to start rolling out ads where Biden came across as a racist.
Funny how Trump only became a racist after he decided to run as a Republican !
Trump is actually the least racist president ever.
Uh...I think Woodrow Wilson claims that “honor”.
After all, he DID screen “Birth of a Nation” at the White House, and thought it was awesome.
It enrages me how anyone on the left can say anything, regardless of how outrageous and without basis, and not be challenged.
I’ve had it with this garbage. I went off on a leftist acquaintance yesterday for a very similar offense.
Biden is just covering up for all of those racist Democrat presidents
Watch this anti-Biden ad:
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1278837925535535105
Biden can be destroyed without even mentioning the race issue.
Antifa, (the stars of this ad) are almost all white:
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/06/antifa-osint-profile-violent-leftist-group-part-1/
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/06/antifa-profile-radical-left-anarchist-group-part-2/
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/07/antifa-osint-profile-leaders-weaknesses-exposed-part-3/
Why go all the way back to Buchanan and Wilson? In terms of ‘racist’ behavior, we can look to the President of the U.S. when Biden was born. He imprisoned 120,000 American citizens based solely on their national origin. And Biden claims President Trump is racist for restricting immigration from some (not all) Muslim nations. (I know, Islam is not a race).
“First Racist President”
That’s a lie, even by Leftist standards. If there was never a racist President before now, there wouldn’t be any “systemic racism” to fuss about, and Washington and Jefferson are back to being saints.
I had a conversation with two black guys last week about race and a bunch of other stuff. Both were from Brooklyn and readily admitted that Trump could not possibly be a racist.
They said New York is too diverse. A racist could never succeed there.
If Donald Trump is the “first racist President”, why are they tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson for being racist?
Woodrow Wilson segregated the Federal Government far beyond what was in place when he took office, and when Black people complained he literally threw them out of the White House. But no, Trump is really the first racist President. Ha. It’s time to send Biden packing, he really doesn’t know what he is talking about.
If I were Trump I would respond by saying..”Glad you are admitting you are a racist punk Joe. When did you come to that admission?”
And another great TV ad was made.
Keep talking PedoJoe...the commercials just keep on coming.
I am still waiting for one of them to provide an example of something President Trump said or did that could be considered racist.
Thanks for the links!!
He must have missed all those Presidents that owned slaves
He omitted Obama who was the most racist of all Presidents in American history. As vice President in the Obama administration, Biden was de facto racist.
...says the nominee of the Party of Hate, Racism, and Evil, the political party that has championed and exploited every evil from slavery and the ku klux klan to voter fraud, abortion, anarchy, racial segregation, lynching, arson, coup d’état, and the destruction of the United States!
Anyway, I thought the Democrats’ platform was accusing Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Lincoln, Jackson—and everybody else—of being racists!
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