If the Monuments Must Go, Don't Forget These
Yups. isn't that the criteria? So we're told.
And #6 has been brought up already. I wonder why ANY statue of this man stands to begin with if he was a card carrying leader of the KKK. But there it sits in places, and not a peep about it needs to come down because of racism.
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If the Monuments Must Go, Don't Forget These
After the clashes in Charlottesville, a mania against Confederate monuments has swept the country. Local leaders in various states have decided to remove statues and monuments, while at least one black pastor in Chicago has called for excising even George Washington's name from public parks, and Anonymous has planned to remove 11 statues on Friday.
One plausible response is to defend the statues. Another would be to encourage the movement to go further.
Activists who cry for the removal of Confederate statues do so on the grounds that these leaders were racist, that they hurt people based on the color of their skin or their national origin. If those are the criteria, however, why stop with the Confederacy?
Racism has a long and varied history, and certainly these social justice warriors wouldn't want to defend racists, even if they were important inventors, politicians, or scientists, right?
Here are six people whose statues should be removed, if the Left insists on that sort of thing.
1. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).
Woodrow Wilson, America's 28th president, wasn't just a racist. As president of Princeton University, he discouraged blacks from applying for admission. His book series History of the American People defended Ku Klux Klan lynchings in the late 1860s.
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2. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922).
Alexander Graham Bell deserves recognition for inventing the telephone, but he was also a horrible racist. Bell served as honorary president of the Second International Eugenics Conference in New York in 1921, and led the eugenics movement during that period.
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3. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966).
The founder of Planned Parenthood herself, Margaret Sanger, may not have been a racist exactly, but she was a classist and fellow traveler in the eugenics movement.
After World War I, she lamented that the affluent and educated limit their child-bearing, while the poor and ignorant had more children. She sought to "assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit." While she rejected race as a determining factor, she still sought to control who should and should not have children.
In a 1939 letter to black pastors, she infamously wrote, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
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4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945).
America's 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, may have led America through World War II against the Nazis, but he also seized and relocated hundreds of thousands of first-generation Japanese immigrants in "internment" camps.
FDR's government seized these people's assets and carted them off to camps in harsh locations. In December 1941, when Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S., many Germans and Italians were also arrested and placed in camps.
While this was a war tactic, intended to prevent espionage and sabotage, many consider it a long-lasting racist crime of discrimination against Japanese people.
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5. J. William Fulbright (1905-1995).
Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) supported segregation and opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While he later repented of his racist positions, that makes him little better than Robert E. Lee (who emphatically supported the Union after the Civil War) or George Washington (who freed his slaves after his death).
Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. In 1964, Fulbright joined with other southern Democrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He also voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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6. Robert Byrd (1917-2010).
In the early 1940s, Robert Byrd recruited 150 friends and associates to create a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia. He became a recruiter and the leader of his chapter, and when it came time to elect the top officer (the "Exalted Cyclops") in the Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen form the wilds," Byrd wrote to segregationist Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (D-Miss.).
In 1952, when Byrd ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, he said he lost interest in the Klan "after about a year," but he wrote a 1946 letter to a Grand Wizard praising the Klan.
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