Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time
So liberals, tear down the Confederates but you damn well better burn the Woodrow Wilson Museum and destroy the Woodrow Wilson bridge that 10s of thousands of black "folk" drive over every day, without a clue how racist the son of a bitch was.
Outright dismissals were also common. Upon taking office, Wilson himself fired 15 out of 17 black supervisors in the federal service and replaced them with white people. After the Treasury and Post Office began segregating, many black workers were let go. The head of the Internal Revenue division in Georgia fired all his black employees, saying, "There are no government positions for Negroes in the South. A Negro's place in the corn field." To enable hiring discrimination going forward, in 1914 the federal government began requiring photographs on job applications.
The only President to view "A Birth of a Nation" a movie dedicated to the Ku Klux Klan.Wilson himself was the descendant of Confederate soldiers, and identified deeply with the "Lost Cause" narrative, according to which the Confederacy was a government of noble men trying to preserve a decent agrarian way of life against crude Northern industrialists, rather than a separatist movement premised on white supremacy.
So liberals, tear down the Confederates but you damn well better burn the Woodrow Wilson Museum and destroy the Woodrow Wilson bridge that 10s of thousands of black "folk" drive over every day, without a clue how racist the son of a bitch was.