How About This Statue?

[Pogo]

It really has not been debunked, just not conclusively proved.

You apparently won't even accept PBS as a source. Not sure what you would accept. Certainly by now you have found out that even Snopes doesn't debunk it they just post a lot of comment.

I don't accept anything as a source unless it can be documented and/or corroborated. PBS is certainly not immune to error.... just because it's PBS. That's absurd.

The quote is your assertion --- therefore the burden of proof of its authenticity is also yours.

Hardly a debunking of at least part of the quote.

Now ask yourself honestly, what if Trump showed, or allowed to be shown, a screening of a similar film? What would be your reaction?

More about Wilson and racism from PBS. This narrative fits perfectly with the quote:

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A National Struggle . The President | PBS

Don't need it. You're posting to a poster who's been describing Woodrow Wilson as a racist asshole for years here - actually I consider him one of the four worst Presidents since 1900. But that's not the assertion here. The assertion is the quote, for which there's no evidence. As already pointed out the first time it appears anywhere is 1937, and the link of the newspaper image you just posted is fifty years later than that.

Moreover you're still failing to address the question of what the quote would mean if it were real. Why is that?

Is it all about emotion without any rational reasoning behind it? Is that why you're linking these bullshit-infested videos by Whittle Bill with a straight face?

Whittle Bill is a pilot and a talking head in a suit, and a gadfly YouTube attention whore --- not in any way a historian.

 

[Slash]

Of course today the democrats try and say that history has reversed itself and the then democrats are today's republicans. OF course they have to say that what else can they say.

But ask yourself a question. Whose history can you be more proud of? The party of slavery, democrats or Republicans the party of the emancipation proclamation?

Nobody is saying the Parties reversed. Just that the socially liberal Republican party of the day is now a socially conservative one and vice versa.


Look at this presidential platform.

Support of a partisan program to provide federal assistance for low income communities
Extend Social Security to 10 million more workers and benefits hikes for 6.5 million Americans
Provide asylum for thousands of refugees, expellees and displaced persons
Raise the minimum wage and extend minimum-wage protections to as many more workers as is possible and practicable.
Bring unemployment insurance to 4 million additional workers
Protect the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively
Fight to protect equal pay for equal work regardless of sex.

Those are some of the key parts of President Eisenhowers platform. His Democratic opponent was more based on fighting communism with a stronger national defense. Opposing tax loopholes and sales tax. Using military strength to keep the peace abroad, keep gov't expenditures to the lowest possible level. Protect agriculture in the US, help small businesses, protect free enterprise, privatize social programs, improve veterans benefits..




Most people follow with the ideologies of their candidates not a letter affixed to the back of their name. Take for example Hillary Clinton. If she switched parties and ran with an R behind her name in the next election, without changing her policies, would you vote for her? Of course not.

 

[oldsoul]

What does Portland think?

Doesn't matter hipster. It's offensive and needs to be pulled down.

What? It's offensive so it needs to go? Really? What about the first Amendment? Do the citizens of Portland not have that right because someone else is "offended"? Furthermore, name me one statue/memorial that has NO CHANCE of offending someone, and I will show you an empty piece of land. Check that, if you can find such a thing, I've got some ocean front property in Arizona for sale....