RHF wrote:
[...]
Some even claim that FDR allowed Pearl Harbor
to happen to get us into WWII.


There's a lot of evidence that he did. And there's a shortwave
connection to the story, too. See

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2008/10/east-wind-rain/


* FDR kept the US Military segregated in WWII
after Prez Wilson had re-segregated it in WWI.
[...]


And to think that there are some so foolishly partisan that they
claim that no Democrat ever did anything good!

Partisanship clouds the mind and atrophies the heart.

Actually, Woodrow Wilson said some very sensible things about race.
To a group of Black leaders, he said:

"Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit, and ought to be so
regarded by you gentlemen." -- Woodrow Wilson, 1913

Of the terrible days of the so-called Reconstruction period, Wilson
wrote:

"It was a menace to society itself that the negroes should thus of a
sudden be set free and left without tutelage or restraint.... The
country filled with vagrants, looking for pleasure and gratuitous
fortune. Idleness bred want, as always, and the vagrants turned
thieves or inopportune beggars. The tasks of ordinary labor stood
untouched; the idlers grew insolent, dangerous; nights went
anxiously by, for fear of riot and incendiary fire. It was
imperatively necessary that something should be done.... The
southern legislatures, therefore, promptly undertook remedies of
their own - such remedies as English legislators had been familiar
with time out of mind." -- Woodrow Wilson in _The New York Age_,
July 11, 1912

On the issue of non-White immigration, Wilson stated:

"I stand for the national policy of exclusion. The whole question is
one of assimilation of diverse races. We cannot make an homogeneous
population of a people who do not blend with the Caucasian race....
Oriental coolieism will give us another race problem to solve, and
surely we have had our lesson." -- Woodrow Wilson, 1912

And, just in case some foolish partisans think I am giving all the
glory to Wilson, it's also important to remember that Wilson's
Republican contemporary, Theodore Roosevelt, was also sane when it
came to most racial matters:

"Nineteenth-century democracy needs no more complete vindication for
its existence than the fact that it has kept for the white race the
best portions of the new world's surface -- temperate America and
Australia. Had these regions been under aristocratic governments,
Chinese immigration would have been encouraged precisely as the
slave trade is encouraged of necessity by any slave-holding
oligarchy, and the result would in a few generations have been even
more fatal to the white race; but the democracy, with the clear
instinct of race selfishness, saw the race foe, and kept out the
dangerous alien." -- _Memorial Edition of the Works of Theodore
Roosevelt_, XIV, 245


Esse quam videre,



Kevin Alfred Strom.
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http://kevinalfredstrom.com/