As the Confederate flag goes, so goes racist Democrat Woodrow Wilson

By Scott St. Clair | The Save Jersey Blog

Removing the Confederate battle flag from official state buildings, state flags and license plates after the Charleston massacre is appropriate, and I endorse the policy. But if the crusade against all things Confederate and its legacy, including demands by our Legislature “to omit any reference to it,” is to continue, then New Jersey’s government, editorial opinion makers and political leaders must step up to the plate to move to redact any reference to the most racist, violent and pro-Ku Klux Klan politician of the 20th Century, Woodrow Wilson.

woodrow wilsonIf The Star-Ledger and its affiliated newspapers existed in any form back in the day and endorsed him for governor or president, then I call upon their editorial boards to retract same and I demand that they apologize for such disgraceful conduct.  Call it long-overdue editorial reparations.

Because Wilson was a Democrat, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, state Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg,  Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald and Democrats in New Jersey’s congressional delegation must immediately issue a joint statement denouncing him and disassociating themselves from his legacy. They must be joined in this by the state Democratic Party chair, John Currie, and party executive director, Chris James. If they don’t, then they stand condemned as supporters of Wilson’s racism by the maxim, “Silence is acquiescence.”

I was struck by the heinous severity of Wilson’s racist crimes when my wife and I stopped recently at the Woodrow Wilson Service Area on the Turnpike, where deep shame welled up inside of me prompting this plea.

Southern born and raised, Wilson was a racist and demagogue his whole career. Some say he was a member of the KKK himself. One of his first acts as president was to re-segregate federal agencies in the District of Columbia arguing that, “It is as far as possible from being a movement against the Negroes. I sincerely believe it to be in their interest.”

Even the left regards him as the most racist president in modern American history.

When confronted by a delegation of black businessmen who expressed disappointment with his re-segregation efforts, he rudely said to them, “Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”

Wilson screened the racist, pro-Klan movie “Birth of a Nation” in the White House and praised it as accurate saying, “It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.” It can be argued that this act was the catalyst in Klan membership and political power exploding in ensuing years.

In other words, Woodrow Wilson made the modern Klan what it was and is.

As president, Wilson dragged America into a wholly unnecessary foreign war, and thenbungled the peace, the consequence of which was another, even more bloody and disastrous foreign war 30 years later.

All references to Woodrow Wilson on any public building, campus (an effort is underway in Portland, OR to change the name of their Woodrow Wilson High School) or edifice must be expunged and replaced with something inclusive and unifying. All official mention of him, including in public school textbooks, must be erased. New Jersey must officially repudiate him in all respects and apologize to America for electing the racist, war-mongering Woodrow Wilson as governor and supporting him for president.

Woodrow Wilson Service Area merchants such as Starbucks and Sunoco must join in this demand or risk being labeled as supporters of a racist Democrat.

New Jersey Legislature, The Star-Ledger, Democratic elected officials and party leaders and Starbucks, do your duty! Choose this day whom you will serve: the cause of inclusion and unity or the hateful racism of Democrat Woodrow Wilson?

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Scott St Clair
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SCOTT ST. CLAIR: Earning a J.D. from the University of Puget Sound in 1975, Scott is a communications professional who has worked as a freelance journalist/writer as well as a political operative.

5 Comments

  1. I disagree with the premise of suddenly removing the confederate flag because a murderer held it in a photo . The flag doesn’t represent racism and the war in which it was carried was not about slavery. If you’re so outraged at the flag- where were you for the past 100 years when the KKK had hundreds of photos of themselves taken holding that same flag- they killed a hell of a lot more than 9 people. But NOW you’re oppose it only because others say you should. I find that dishonest , at best.

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