The media never mentions FDR’s atrocious civil rights record. Examples:
- FDR sponsored a “polio camp” for children deformed by polio, but he refused to admit black children.
- Despite several entreaties from civil rights advocates in the 30’s, FDR steadfastly refused to integrate the armed forces. And the civil rights groups at the time did not engage in even the slightest amount of victimology- they sought “equal protection under the law” and not much more.
- Internment of American citizens with Japanese heritage for no other reason than their heritage (that, and they looked sneaky, I guess /sarc).
- It’s likely that one of his SCOTUS appointees, Hugo Black, participated in lynchings when he was in the Klan.
Also, although Truman eventually integrated the armed forces, he refused to support the 1946 Civil Rights Act, which was written by Robert Taft and several other pro-liberty Republicans. The Act would have done what the 1964 Civil Rights Act eventually did, but 18 years earlier.
And don’t even get me started about Woodrow Wilson, the most extreme racist to ever serve as President. Wilson famously wrote an executive order that forbid blacks from the federal civil service, which was undone by Harding. In 1921, Harding advocated civil rights legislation very similar to the 1964 Act. He was bitterly opposed on this issue by the Democratic Party.
You're gonna have to provide some substantiation for THAT one.
He was a Klan member because you didn't go anywhere in politics then and there unless you joined. But the idea of him standing around cheering while somebody got a rope is ludicrous.
FDR was anti-semetic as well. He refused to give entry to the ships carrying 900 escaped Jews and they had to go back to death and imprisonment. Some jumped overboard, another black spot in our nation’s history, thanks to him.
For that point alone you score 100 points. I recall having read about Wilson's flimsily veiled hatred of Blacks in Fox News Channel political contributor Angela McGlowan's book Bamboozled.