Forum Post: America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. --Woodrow Wilson
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 16, 2011, 11:34 a.m. EST by Keepitsimple
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. --Woodrow Wilson
Support the OWS movement!!!!
I got the quote from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/woodrow_wilson_4.html#ixzz1dt1oaLO8
Please do not quote Wilson if you wish to inspire OWS. President Obama is demonstrating eerie similarities, Holder Raids on the way... Anyone who supports OWS could not possibly look to Wilson as anything other than a threat to American liberty.
woodrow wilson = left wing fruitcake
Wilson is reviled by both Left and Right alike -- perhaps here we could build a bridge? Check out Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy.
O.K.
Do you have a source for that I can quote?
do your own reading
"Wilson took his southern outlooks and feelings towards race with him to the White House. Almost upon taking office, he fired most of the African Americans who held posts within the federal government, and segregated the Navy, which until then had been desegregated. Many of the newly segregated parts of Wilson’s federal government would remain so, clear into the 1950s.
In an article that appeared in the 1999 Canadian Review of American Studies entitled “Race and the Southern Imagination: Woodrow Wilson Reconsidered”, Michael Dennis explores Wilson’s racism and gives some insight to why such feelings might not have been viewed as severe as they actually were. Dennis states that during this time in history when crowds would gather from all around “to watch Henry Smith lynched, his feet seared with a red-hot iron, the word "Justice" emblazoned on the scaffold, his grisly demise captured in souvenir photographs, whites who promoted segregation seemed comparatively mild.”
Dennis goes on to write that due to historians’ desire of an example of a southern silent liberal, many have “held up Wilson as an example of racial enlightenment” and have even called him “benevolent towards blacks”. Given that Wilson was not an advocate of violence in dealing with what he called the “race question”, his desire to simply keep blacks and whites separate seemed almost genteel. Yet, when one looks at the terrible long term effects that Wilson’s policies had, it is anything but. When it came to his attitudes and treatment towards African Americans, Wilson was neither enlightened nor benevolent."
Read more at Suite101: Woodrow Wilson and White Supremacy: An Examination of Wilson’s Racist and Antidemocratic Policies | Suite101.com http://elvira-nieto.suite101.com/woodrow-wilson-and-white-supremacy-a126787#ixzz1dup6A1hF
Seems Wilson was one of the good-ole-white-boys. It's also know he had misgivings on what he did while in the White House.