| ManusJustus said: Kasz, Again, you have to take the time period into consideration. Franklin Roosevelt wasnt anymore racist than the rest of America. Even Canada had its own Japanese internment camps. About George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. I guess you think the wholesale destruction of Native Americans, the unequal status of blacks and women, and so forth are comendable? All these presidents sought a genocide of Native Americans as America moved its terriroty West, but somehow Franklin Roosvelt enacting a order that was not anymore racist than America or the rest of the West at that time qualifies him as a horrible president ever. Lets take a look at Theodore Roosevelt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt He said that any war with savages was justified, and horribe treatment of savages during these wars are necessary. In the Brownsfield Affair he discharged an entire black army regiment, which Nixon would later apologize for and reverse. Of course, this was no different than the times, but applying today's moral standards... |
Manus, George Washington had nothing to do with Westward expansion. That wasn't until 30+ years after his time in office was over. He was focused on ousting the Brits, not on killing off the native americans. Lincoln would better fit the time period you mentioned.
