No. of Recommendations: 7
Question from Dope for Sheila: 'I'm not sure who you're speaking with, but ask that person which US President screen a Klan film in the White House. Whoever it is won't like the answer.'
I'll save you the trouble Sheila and answer the question for you.
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'On the evening of March 21, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson attended a special screening at the White House of THE BIRTH OF A NATION, a film directed by D.W. Griffith and based on THE CLANSMAN, a novel written by Wilson's good friend Thomas Dixon. The film presented a distorted portrait of the South after the Civil War, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan and denigrating blacks.
So is this screening that Woodrow Wilson attended back in 1915.....108 years ago..... supposed to provide the horrifying and undeniable proof that Democrats are actually pro-KKK? Pro-racism? If either of you had done a little more research (or had a better knowledge of history), you'd know that Wilson was progressive in many ways, and a noted supporter of the Jewish community, but very anti-Black. And that jarring aspect finally caused Princeton University to decide to remove Wilson's name from their School of Public and International Affairs and from a residential college.
It's an unfortunate commentary on Woodrow Wilson, not on Democrats.
