ManusJustus said:
Do you really think that I, or anyone else for that matter, is for Japanese interment? No, but we realize that there is such as thing as perspective of the time, and during the 1940s just because black people couldnt vote and people were afraid of Japanese spies doesnt make Roosevelt a bad president. By the same logic: George Washington - worst president ever, supported slavery Abraham Lincoln - another horrible president, wouldnt let women vote If you judge every historical figure by today's moral standards, you are going to hate everyone before 1980.
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George Washington didn't enact slavery laws.
Abrham Lincoln didn't create laws to stop women from voting.
FDR went out of his way to make Racist laws for no real reason... except that Asian Americans were living on profitable west coast land.
Look at Teddy Roosevelt. Not only did he not inact worst racist laws... he was the first president to invite a black man to the whitehouse.
FDR was a racist... even more so then was average for those times.
Theodore Roosevelt was better on the issue of race... and he was president before him!
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/Civil%20Rights.htm
