Gads, you're a fool.
It was Republicans who abolished slavery, and brought women the right to vote.
Democrats fought both.
And as for minorities.....when you get that library care, check out what the Democrat Liberal demigod, Franklin Roosevelt said about Jews, Asians and blacks.
1. Franklin Roosevelt clearly followed in the
racist footsteps of Theodore Roosevelt, seeing fit to
raise KKK'er Hugo Black, who said form the court, ‘They all look alike to a person not a Jap,” to the Supreme Court.
Now that we've learned of FDR's anti-black bigotry....let's move on to the next race he oppressed.....
Whether politically expedient, or simply boilerplate racism, Roosevelt had
American citizens of Japanese origin, thrown into concentration camps.....with no evidence of disloyalty on their part. Over 110,000 Japanese were sent to the camps....although
the same fate did not befall Americans of German or Italian origin.
a. "Although there were a few voices in the administration against internment—particularly Attorney General Francis Biddle and Gen. Mark Clark, the Army’s deputy chief of staff—
the president disregarded the dissenters. On Feb. 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to remove anyone from any area of the country, if deemed necessary for national security.
During the months that followed, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up throughout California and shipped to internment camps in Arizona, Wyoming, Arkansas, and elsewhere. Fred Korematsu, a resident of San Leandro, on the San Francisco Bay, resisted deportation and was arrested, setting in motion a legal struggle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. "
FDR’s Views on Japanese Offer a Window Into Why He Wouldn’t Save Jews
b. "In 1980, Congress established the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Its final
report, titled
Personal Justice Denied, concluded that the internment was motivated by
“race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership,” ....
Ibid.
Seems that neither black nor yellow were among Franklin Roosevelt's favorite colors....
2. Not all the malevolence of Roosevelt involved black or yellow folks...some had to do with
whites, too...
"...
Roosevelt’s most despicable statements about Jews, extensively documented in a series of on-line commentaries by Rafael Medoff, ...did the depths of Roosevelt’s
loathing for Jews, and refusal to lift a finger ... to rescue them, fully penetrate.
As far back as 1920, when FDR was the Democratic party candidate for vice president, he had proposed that “the greater part of the foreign population of the City of New York” should be “distributed to different localities upstate” so as to feel pressure to “conform to the manners and customs and requirements of their new home.”As a member of the Harvard board of directors
he supported a Jewish admissions quota.
In 1941
he told his Cabinet that too many Jews were federal employees in Oregon.
One of his grandsons recalled that
the protagonists in FDR’s jokes “were always Lower East Side Jews with heavy accents.”
At a wartime White House luncheon with Prime Minister Churchill, he suggested “the best way to settle
the Jewish question”was “to spread the Jews thin all over the world.”
At the 1945 Yalta conference, FDR indicated to Stalin that as a concession to the king of Saudi Arabia he would “give him the six million Jews in the United States.”
Betrayal: FDR and the Jews
Kinda got Jewish Liberals prepared to support a President who is all about throwing Israel under the bus.....
...but, heck......
....as long as he is a Democrat.
It's laughable to attempt to argue that Franklin Roosevelt was an exemplary President for the United States, as it was created by the Founders.
No, the only arguable positions are, was he a benevolent dictator, or a megalomaniacal fascist, who yearned for the powers of the men he most admired...Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.
3. "...
Roosevelt’s embedded anti-Semitism was not confined to jokes. It was displayed in the
refusal of the American government in 1939 to admit the desperate refugees on board theS.S. St. Louis,who were returned to Germany [to their deaths] – or to even fill the quotas that authorized the limited admission of Germans.
It was revealed in American government suppression of information about the mass murder of European Jews.
The White House [read 'Roosevelt']
opposed a resolution to create the War Refugee Board and delayed its establishment for fourteen months.
Orders to bomb railroad tracks leading to the extermination camps were never given, although Nazi facilities merely five miles away were destroyed. And special American missions were launched to
rescue art treasures – and performing Lipizzaner horses."
[But not Jews.]
Betrayal: FDR and the Jews
4 ." Why did the administration actively seek to discourage and disqualify Jewish refugees from coming to the United States? Why didn't the president quietly tell his State Department (which administered the immigration system) to fill the quotas for Germany and Axis-occupied countries to the legal limit? That alone
could have saved 190,000 lives. It would not have required a fight with Congress or the anti-immigration forces; it would have involved minimal political risk to the president."
FDR's troubling view of Jews
Interesting questions that an inquiring mind would have no trouble answering when considering Roosevelt's attitude toward other minorities....
"This attitude dovetails with what is known about
FDR's views regarding immigrants in general and Asian immigrants in particular.... He recommended that
future immigration should be limited to those who had "blood of the right sort." "
Op. Cit.
Bet government school doesn't teach these facts, does it.
