To ALL:
If anyone can figure out a way to convince BLM to next attack Franklin D. Roosevelt, it would go down as the best prank ever.
Heh. Wilson was a legit white supremacist who pretty much hated anyone who wasn't a white anglo saxon protestant. As someone else noted on this thread, Wilson said things that would make the KKK blush. It's difficult to find any President more racist than him.
But while we're on the subject of FDR, here are some of his racial policies:
- FDR moved black employees into their own buildings or, if that wasn't possible, had partitions set up around them. He insisted on separate washrooms and belonged to a segregated country club.
- FDR openly allowed labor unions to exclude blacks from their ranks and prevent them from getting work that they desperately needed during the great depression.
- FDR refused to endorse desegregation bills -- and even a federal anti-lynching law -- at a critical time they needed to get through Congress, because doing so would "alienate" racist southern Democrats that he "needed" on board with his New Deal programs.
- FDR invited ONLY the white athletes that competed the 1936 Olympics to the White House. Jesse Owens, who won 4 gold medals in Berlin that year, said: "Hitler didn't snub me -- it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram." - quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap.
- FDR appointed notorious former KKK member Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. When Hugo was a senator in Alabama he infamously filibustered an anti-lynching bill. Hugo also wrote positively of Roosevelt in his memoirs, specifically pointing out that while the KKK was increasingly being frowned upon by the American public, Roosevelt considered that a positive on his part: "[Roosevelt's] best friends and supporters he had in the state of Georgia were strong members of that organization."
Go get 'em, Black Lives Matter!