[lbryce]

Now that we are expunging the legacy of past racism from official places of honor, we should next remove the name Woodrow Wilson from public buildings and bridges. Wilson’s racist legacy — in his official capacity as President — is undisputed.

So, why pick on Woodrow Wilson, political correctness turning him into a pariah, this hungry pack of rabid left-wingers ripping him apart alive in a matter of seconds based on beliefs, perspectives that only reflected the attitude of the times? American history is filled with examples of presidents who by today's standards would be considered far more egregious than the racist label pinned on Wilson. Based on what is happening to Woodrow Wilson, the vicious pack of wild dogs that is 'political correctness' having serendipitously come upon this president as "historical prey" only merely being flushed out via the controversy over the confederate flag, his legacy turned into criminality, his reputation stripped, bared naked as some vicious demagogue, is what I believe to be totally, wholly unfair.

American history is filled with Presidents who as slave owners would be vilified, stripped of their heroic status as forefathers, using the standards in which the wild dog pack of left-wing spawned political correctness is today doing to Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson is easy pickings.

If the principles that infuse "political correctness"with its holier-than-thou righteous indignation were so absolute, let it pursue those most deserved of being called out as "racist", but they won't. They can't. They can't because it would only show the folly that political correctness is.

[Crazieman]

Need to make the issue about demonrats in general. They WERE the party of slavery.

Why are they allowed to exist?

[Rapscallion]

If the principles that infuse "political correctness" with its holier-than-thou righteous indignation were so absolute, let it pursue those most deserved of being called out as "racist", but they won't. They can't. They can't because it would only show the folly that political correctness is.

America is going insane.

[samtheman]

Time to get serious about erasing the stain of this KKK recruiter from these places:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd

Repeat: KKK recruiter

[Bulwinkle]

The Democractic Party should change its name as it is a symbol of hate, slavery and traitors who caused the civil war!

[cripplecreek]

Everybody who was at the 1924 Klanbake should be a target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Democratic_National_Convention

[Genoa]

It's true. I can't find the quotes here and now, but I recently read Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (straight history in this case), and there are quotes on record from Wilson that indicate he was an out-and-out white supremacist.

[WayneS]

American history is filled with examples of presidents who by today's standards would be considered far more egregious than the racist label pinned on Wilson.

Name one (other than Andrew Jackson, who I'll give you).

Woodrow Wilson was, apart from Barack Obama, the most racist man who has ever been president of the United States. He was not just a run-of-the-mill white supremacist, he genuinely hated pretty much anyone who was not a white anglo-saxon protestant.

He is also largely responsible for setting up the environment in which Hitler came to power in Germany, and for cosseting the environment in which Ho Ch Mihn came to power in Vietnam.

He was a vile and reprehensible man, by the attitudes and moral standards of any but the most evil of times and societies.

[WayneS]

“The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country".

Woodrow Wilson wrote this in 1901. Do you really think it is representative of the prevalent beliefs, perspectives and attitude of the United States as a whole in 1901?

[WayneS]

“[The Reconstruction government was detested] not because the Republican Party was dreaded but because the dominance of an ignorant and inferior race was justly dreaded."

--Woodrow Wilson

[US Navy Vet]

“Required” reading: “Wilson and Roosevelt(Teddy)” by Judge Andrew Napolitano.

[stars & stripes forever]

"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia." - David McCullough

"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it." - Winston Churchill

“History has to repeat itself because nobody was listening the first time around.” - Woody Allen

“Whatever circumstances our pasts may hold, we can rise above them into a future shaped by God’s grace.” ― Erwin W. Lutzer,

[BwanaNdege]

...When he entered the White House a hundred years ago today, Washington was a rigidly segregated town...

When I entered grammar school in Washington DC in 1953, the DC School System was still rigidly segregated. Wilson had been out of office for 31 years and none of his successors seemed to mind the situation, either.

(I have no love for Wilson or his policies)

[WayneS]

...When he entered the White House a hundred years ago today, Washington was a rigidly segregated town...

The federal civil service was not segregated. Wilson soon took care of that, though.

[edwinland]

Wow!! The Wilson quotes were so repugnant I was sure they must be invented by his enemies but a bit of google books searching shows they are true. It’s incredible that such a vile racist is lionized by elite society to this day.

This article has more:

http://reason.com/archives/2002/12/18/dixiecrats-triumphant

[lbryce]

I stand corrected.

[Sam Gamgee]

He doesn’t deserve a place of honor because he jailed Americans just for daring to question the legitimacy of a war against Germany. He turned America into a police state.