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Old 06-18-2020, 12:17 PM
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Woodrow Wilson was not a traitor. He was a president. He was a scholar. He supported womens' suffrage and the League of Nations. His racism was only one part of his personna. Should we have removed his statue from Princeton University? Or should Black Americans walk by it every day as proof he was wrong about race. Don't remove it and hide it; talk about it.
And Wilson resegregated the military. It took Truman to reverse that. Wilson was also a fan of Eugenics.
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