Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, February 18, 2019
WOODROW WILSON, ARCH-RACIST
I was unaware of this meeting between William Monroe Trotter and supporters with racistly rancid Woodrow Wilson . Neither man ranks among my favorites. Even so, I have long wondered whether the economic surges among black people in the South, especially, where they came to own 1/3 of its farmland in 1915, was the true reason for Wilson's subversive acts like: imposing a federal income tax, firing, not hiring, segregating black federal government workers, invading Haiti, letting the Klan walk down Pennsylvania Ave, watching "Birth of a Nation" in the White House, gleefully, entering WWI with American armed forces under oppressive white officers, the Federal Reserve System.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/?fbclid=IwAR2nCWKy0NJw1GLdvc6TrfK67_ihsaWSx99zXRmvJsDmZGPURL98GJQ7RIA