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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t think the quote from TR is evidence of racism. I believe when he speaks of “degenerates” he is referring to people with birth defects or who are mentally handicapped. That said, I could be wrong. Eugenics is evil stuff and we know Margaret Sanger wanted to wipe out as many black babies as she could.


5 posted on 11/04/2014 1:29:44 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: pepsi_junkie
I guess the author "forgot" about TR inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner, and also visiting him at Tuskegee. Both men got death threats.


38 posted on 11/04/2014 2:17:40 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: pepsi_junkie

And it was the (liberal icon) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who (IINM), ended his concurring opinion in a case upholding a state’s forced sterilization of mentally handicapped women, “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”


84 posted on 11/05/2014 10:20:07 AM PST by eddiespaghetti ((with the meatball eyes))
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