Progressive Racism: Take racism, first. Woodrow Wilson, for instance, who believed that enfranchising black Americans was “the foundation of every evil in this country,” approved efforts of some cabinet members to introduce segregation in several federal departments. His predecessor and fellow progressive, Teddy Roosevelt, was convinced that African Americans were inherently inferior to whites, and as if to substantiate his views, insisted on draconian punishments for a regiment of Black troops that had been falsely accused of starting a riot in Brownsville, Texas, in 1906. It gets worse. As Jonah Goldberg reports in Liberal Fascism, “American progressives were obsessed with the ‘racial health’ of the nation,” including such noted black Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois, who agreed with Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project,” which aimed at limiting reproduction of “inferior” portions of America’s black citizens. Indeed, over the course of the past century, far too many progressives—in my view—have never believed in equality of the races, today insisting that, left to their own devices, African Americans cannot make it on their own and thus need artificial props like affirmative action to lift them up. Contemporary progressives may say that they believe in equality, but they want government programs that advantage some over others. Dr. Marvin Folkertsma dk
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