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| | The decline of taking legitimate claims of racism in America reached a height when after 2009 the [[authoritarian]] ruling [[Democrat party]], with a [[veto]]-proof Congress, impugned opponents with legitimate concerns about the [[socialist]] and coercive mandates of the [[Affordable Care Act]], or Obamacare as it's more popularly known, as motivated by racism. | | The decline of taking legitimate claims of racism in America reached a height when after 2009 the [[authoritarian]] ruling [[Democrat party]], with a [[veto]]-proof Congress, impugned opponents with legitimate concerns about the [[socialist]] and coercive mandates of the [[Affordable Care Act]], or Obamacare as it's more popularly known, as motivated by racism. |
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| − | ==The Democratic party== | + | ==The Democratic party's role in Civil Rights== |
| | [[File:1924 DNC convention.jpg|right|350px|thumb|1924 Democratic Convention.]] | | [[File:1924 DNC convention.jpg|right|350px|thumb|1924 Democratic Convention.]] |
| | {{See also|Liberalism and racism}} | | {{See also|Liberalism and racism}} |
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| | On some college campuses, liberals have supported and even implemented [[segregated college housing]], with the segregation based purely on one's skin color.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (September 10, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/30025-leftists-are-now-advocating-racial-segregation Leftists Are Now Advocating Racial Segregation]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 10, 2018.</ref> | | On some college campuses, liberals have supported and even implemented [[segregated college housing]], with the segregation based purely on one's skin color.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (September 10, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/30025-leftists-are-now-advocating-racial-segregation Leftists Are Now Advocating Racial Segregation]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 10, 2018.</ref> |
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| − | ===Woodrow Wilson===
| + | '''Woodrow Wilson''' |
| | [[File:FDR Truman and KKK.jpeg|right|250px|thumb|Despite historians revisionism, Democrat racism was well known at the time.]] | | [[File:FDR Truman and KKK.jpeg|right|250px|thumb|Despite historians revisionism, Democrat racism was well known at the time.]] |
| | Woodrow Wilson was only the second Democrat elected president since the [[Civil War]], and he believed that blacks were inferior. Wilson segregated Washington, D.C. and all federal buildings and installations throughout the country with separate bathrooms and cafeterias - even in states without [[Jim Crow Laws]]. Wilson, segregated the Army, wiping out 50 years of social progress that Blacks had made under Republican administrations.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/</ref> Military bases, post offices, and federal buildings in Northern states - states that won the war - were transformed to resemble Southern plantations, with Blacks allowed to work in the kitchen, but couldn't dine with Whites and had to use their own separate restrooms. | | Woodrow Wilson was only the second Democrat elected president since the [[Civil War]], and he believed that blacks were inferior. Wilson segregated Washington, D.C. and all federal buildings and installations throughout the country with separate bathrooms and cafeterias - even in states without [[Jim Crow Laws]]. Wilson, segregated the Army, wiping out 50 years of social progress that Blacks had made under Republican administrations.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/</ref> Military bases, post offices, and federal buildings in Northern states - states that won the war - were transformed to resemble Southern plantations, with Blacks allowed to work in the kitchen, but couldn't dine with Whites and had to use their own separate restrooms. |
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| | Wilson also believed that Italians were even more inferior,<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1214/5-surprising-facts-about-Woodrow-Wilson-and-racism</ref> and he later appointed his anti-Semitic attorney general [[James McReynolds]] to the Supreme Court. According to [[Sigmund Freud]], Wilson had a mental disorder. | | Wilson also believed that Italians were even more inferior,<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1214/5-surprising-facts-about-Woodrow-Wilson-and-racism</ref> and he later appointed his anti-Semitic attorney general [[James McReynolds]] to the Supreme Court. According to [[Sigmund Freud]], Wilson had a mental disorder. |
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| + | '''Franklin Roosevelt''' |
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| | [[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt always opposed Republican civil rights bills and anti-lynching legislation. | | [[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt always opposed Republican civil rights bills and anti-lynching legislation. |
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| | {{Quotebox|[[Hitler]] didn’t snub me; it was our president [[FDR]] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a [congratulatory] telegram.}} | | {{Quotebox|[[Hitler]] didn’t snub me; it was our president [[FDR]] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a [congratulatory] telegram.}} |
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| − | ===Harry Truman===
| + | '''Harry Truman''' |
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| − | [[Harry Truman]], a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, wrote a letter to his own wife condemning blacks and Orientals.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/fbpa/index.php?documentid=HST-FBP_1-21_01&documentVersion=both</ref> | + | [[Harry Truman]], a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, wrote a letter to his own wife condemning blacks and Orientals.<ref>https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumanpapers/fbpa/index.php?documentid=HST-FBP_1-21_01&documentVersion=both</ref> |
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| | ==The Civil Rights movement== | | ==The Civil Rights movement== |