Before we start feeling all warm and fuzzy about Teddy Roosevelt...
Here are a few of TR's thoughts on race and politics the Obama failed to mention:
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Before we start feeling all warm and fuzzy about Teddy Roosevelt...
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Before we start feeling all warm and fuzzy about Teddy Roosevelt...:
Let's remember that Teddy Roosevelt, eulogized in Pres. Obama's Osawatomie speech on "New Nationalism," Tuesday, was at his best a tame economic reformer and at his worst, a racist, imperialist war monger. Publicly, Roosevelt spoke out against racism and discrimination at times, but also believed in social-Darwinism, the philosophical rock bed of white supremacy.