| − | Woodrow Wilson was only the second Democrat elected since the [[Civil War]], 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. Military bases in Northern states - who 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 since the [[Civil War]] and 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. Military bases in Northern states - who 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. |
| | Wilson also believed that Italians were even more inferior,<ref>http://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. [[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court, and his vice president [[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> [[John F. Kennedy]] admired Hitler,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340596/JFK-s-diary-reveals-deep-fascination-Adolf-Hitler.html</ref> and his father Joe opposed US entry into World War II out of anti-Semitism, while Kennedy’s vice president [[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said “I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years”. While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref> According to The Real Jimmy Carter by Steven Hayward, Jimmy Carter did nothing to help the desegregation cause in the South, but sometimes did the opposite, and like Bill Clinton, endorsed racist candidates for political offices. Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary made anti-Semitic comments before while the father of Bill’s vice president Al Gore was a segregationist senator. Barack Obama’s church was Trinity United Church of Christ, a Black Liberation Theology Church, and his vice-president Joe Biden made racist comments about South Asians. | | Wilson also believed that Italians were even more inferior,<ref>http://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. [[Franklin Roosevelt]] appointed Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court, and his vice president [[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> [[John F. Kennedy]] admired Hitler,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340596/JFK-s-diary-reveals-deep-fascination-Adolf-Hitler.html</ref> and his father Joe opposed US entry into World War II out of anti-Semitism, while Kennedy’s vice president [[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said “I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years”. While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref> According to The Real Jimmy Carter by Steven Hayward, Jimmy Carter did nothing to help the desegregation cause in the South, but sometimes did the opposite, and like Bill Clinton, endorsed racist candidates for political offices. Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary made anti-Semitic comments before while the father of Bill’s vice president Al Gore was a segregationist senator. Barack Obama’s church was Trinity United Church of Christ, a Black Liberation Theology Church, and his vice-president Joe Biden made racist comments about South Asians. |