Ivy League students at Princeton University are protesting…
They want Woodrow Wilson’s name removed from university’s buildings. Because the attitudes he had 100 years ago are clearly racist by today’s standards. He was president of Princeton in 1903 and a two term president of the United States in 1913. Every university associated with a U.S. president has a building with their name on it.
However, let’s let that pass. Judging historic figures out of their historical context must be our new standard.
Next in line should be Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
FDR defined 20th century Liberalism, yet he ordered Japanese-Americans to be held in prison camps. Any president who would arrest and jail US citizens based on their ethnicity should be pilloried in the public square. Harvard students should rise up against him or be condemned themselves.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy will be a painful addition to the hit list.
But only to the older folks. Because history is clear; Kennedy voted against President Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Act. And as President, Kennedy ordered the FBI to break into Martin Luther King‘s office and home to install bugs. His instructed the agents about the “delicacy of this particular matter” and hoped they didn’t get caught installing them. Kennedy added that he wanted to be personally informed of any pertinent information. It looks like Harvard students need to rise up twice.
Sadly, Martin Luther King must also be placed on our list.
In the late 1950s, MLK told a gay teenager, “I would suggest that you see a good psychiatrist who can assist you in bringing to the forefront of conscience all of those experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit.”
And King’s obvious anti-gay stance became clear when he fired Bayard Rustin, a top advisor, for being gay. The students of Morehouse may have a tough time with this one. They may leave it for the next wave of freshmen who need something to protest.
The new standard of out-of-context judging is easier the older history.
Come to think of it, did you ever stop to think that the United States of America was formed by men in high heels who wore wigs?
I watched a small part of the JFK special on PBS last night. JFK would not know the democrat party today — he’d be a conservative. His rhetoric and opinions were 180 degrees from Dumbo’s rantings today. Kennedy sounded so strong, so republican.
I’m really not sure if it’s PC to be a womanizer today. Keeping up with the standards of the PC crowd has gotten really confusing.
Good point, Jack but it works both ways. By the standards today with the Repugs, Ike and Nixon as well, would be considered flaming liberals. Compromise was not a bad word back in the 1950’s and 1960’s like it is today.
Good topic, Mark.
That was in a day when a thing such as a Dixiecrat existed.
‘Memba them?
Reagan would be tarred and feathered in today’s GOP
JFK, Obama, Sharpton, Wilson, Roosevelt, Jefferson would be aborted by democrat women today.
How can our country name its capital city in honor of a man that owned slaves??? I propose that we rename it to something that honors Caitlyn Jenner. History hath never seen a braver man/woman.
O for Lord’s sake, please tell me you’re kidding.
Uh, yeah, it was a joke.
Malcom X was a Gay Prostitute.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/19/gayrights.usa
Quelle Horreur!! MLK would not approve of that!
J. Edgar Hoover would be a big Caitlyn Jenner fan. Jane E. Hoover maybe.
I still think Bruce Jenner should have changed his name to Jen Brucer. Then of course, in due time, she/he would be on the 20 dollar bill.
Here is some smoke, is there fire?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTO9-dMWIAAg6Np.jpg
I clicked on that last url and I am amazed that the media is more interested in what I did when I was a 10 year old than all of the secrets in Obama’s resume.
Ok, no, I am not amazed. The current Tyrant…, er…, president’s lies compares well with Bernie Madoff, with the exception that the financial damage is National and light years worse than Bernie just screwing his friends and family. The Progressive Ponzi Scheme known as “Obama Care”, birthed from the complicit corruption of the White House and the cellular deceit on the left, in the fraudulent and malevolent mind of Johnathan Gruber escapes the attention of the Liberal Media and sickens the Americans promised succor and assistance, when in fact it delivers economic pestilence and dysfunction.
I am a very religious man as you all know and this Thanksgiving, I give thanks for, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel for this malignant, 8 year Face Plant.
While the 4th Estate has been preoccupied with my many pubescent sins, global warming, advocating for “Black Lives Matter”, covering up for their “Boy” and welcoming terrorist into America, the Administration has place many feathers in it’s cap, or, should I say Crown.
The Racial Divide hasn’t been this salient in 60 years.
Bergdahl.
Obama Care.
Benghazi cover up.
The list is lengthy.
His “Firsts” are noteworthy.
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States .
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and later admit there was no such thing as shovel-ready jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with cr imi nal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to publicly bow to Americas enemies while refusing to salute the U.S. Flag.
First President to go on multiple global apology tours (What a pussy.).
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for
by the taxpayer (We all love vacations, but come on!).
First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense (Hey I love dogs, but come on!).
First President to repeat “the Holy Qur’an tells us,” and openly admit “the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.” He should play it in Paris the next time he is there.
Well, I have to go now and answer more questions from “journalists” about my past.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Ben, I have told you again and again, that the Main Stream Media is the Democrat Party Super Pac and you will never get a fair shake. They (The MSM) are willing to do anything this election cycle, to keep the Democrat Royal Party in power.
THE KING IS DEAD (Retired to Hollywood, where he will divorce Michelle and party with the Neo Marxist Crème de la crème)!
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!
I heard that folks here on the Missouri side are pushing to have Jefferson City renamed “Pinkel City.” Any truth to that?
True Missouri fans rejoice in the beating administered today.
We are NOT “Gravely disappointed”.
As a citizen of the great state of Missouri I am honored that the Razorbacks defeated Mizzou and embarrassed Pinkel.