Bernie Sanders Calls Trump Most Racist President In History. He Forgot Three Others

In 1913, Democrat president Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the federal government, replaced 88% of black federal service supervisors with whites, and by 1914 began requiring photographs from government job applicants. Wilson defended the Ku Klux Klan in passages that later appeared in D.W. Griffith’s infamous film The Birth of a Nation, which Wilson screened at the White House.

After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Democrat president Franklin Roosevelt snubbed black, four-time gold medal winner Jesse Owens from a reception honoring exclusively white American competitors. Owens might have counted himself lucky, however, comparing his treatment with that of other racial minorities during Roosevelt’s reign. In 1942, Roosevelt arrested and interned more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, while curiously sparing Americans of German and Italian descent, by executive order.

Lyndon Johnson remained virulently racist in his personal conduct, referring to Asians as “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves,” according to biographer Robert Caro, and driving trunk-loads of snakes to gas stations to scare black attendants. Johnson’s chauffeur Robert Parker, a black man, recalled that Johnson once asked him if he would prefer to be called by his name rather than by various, demeaning nicknames. He said yes, and in Parker’s telling Johnson responded, “No one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water. ... Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
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