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For your reading interest...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:36:58 +0000

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For your reading interest...

Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers
and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America

By Eric Steven Yellin - 2013

Partial Introduction

Click the link for Page 1886 for the entire Introduction.

~OGD~

Good links - I think it's

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 07:43:23 +0000

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Good links - I think it's instructive to consider how inept Wilson actually was at foreign policy, as well as exposing his inherent & blatant racism. Other than being the Johnny-come-lately president that won the war in 1 year after Europe exhausted itself, and not getting the League of Nations passed... what did he do? Why is he respected?

In looking at some of the negotiations, the acceptance of Asian-on-Asian racism over white-on-Asian as preferable is something of a curse that has had consequences over the last century.

Good links - I think it's

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 07:43:23 +0000

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In looking at some of the negotiations, the acceptance of Asian-on-Asian racism over white-on-Asian as preferable is something of a curse that has had consequences over the last century.

I don't think anyone is

ocean-kat — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:22:06 +0000

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I don't think anyone is trying to erase history. Mostly people are trying to revise poorly done history with a more accurate portrayal. At most they're simply trying to remove an honor given in error.

Here is another smart guy who

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:32:27 +0000

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Here is another smart guy who speaks about the record and the importance of Wilson. I admire Bill Scher and am glad that I listened to his views on this subject. He corrects some of the commonly held history and gives a different slant on the controversy than that which I have seen in other places. He also has a column at "Real Clear Politics" with much of the same story but I recommend the diavlog at "BloggingHeads TV" which goes into a bit more depth for about thirty minutes on the subject. For those short of bytes an audio only version can be found at Itunes and no doubt other sources.

http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/37809

I follow Corey Robin and read

trkingmomoe — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:30:41 +0000

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I follow Corey Robin and read these this morning going through my reader feed. I like most of what he writes. He has a really good blog.

Great links thanks.

NCD — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 04:10:15 +0000

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Great links thanks.

As a TR admirer I.think WW

NCD — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:42:58 +0000

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As a TR admirer I.think WW election in 1912 led to the bloodbaths of WW1&2. TR spoke German fluently, had recently toured Europe as a hugely popular statesman and had already forced the Kaiser to back down in the Venezuelan crisis when President by threatening war on Germany. TR would h ave ended the stalemate of 1914 in 1915 over German violation of Belgian neutrality.

On race, Wilson also instituted a requirement for photos for federal job applications, not ended until FDR.

Wilson actually resegregated

Richard Day — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:57:39 +0000

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Wilson actually resegregated DC.

Then there was his lauding of Birth of a Nation.

It has been awhile since I actually read a biography of this President, but I recall that several social programs were instituted during his Administration.

But I am against these attempts at erasing our histories.

Here are some smart people

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:11:06 +0000

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Here are some smart people who mostly agree with you. I am including commenters.

http://coreyrobin.com/2015/11/22/on-sentimentality-and-college/

http://coreyrobin.com/2015/11/17/black-alumni-at-yale-weigh-in-with-majo...

http://coreyrobin.com/2015/11/21/what-we-owe-the-students-at-princeton/