Just a Little FDR Refresher
When the liberal in-laws/co-workers/what have you inevitably start quoting FDR this summer and fall in hopes of comparing ol' Bernie to him, you can instantly shut down the revisionist rhetoric with a few fun facts.
- He created the executive order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese expatriates and American citizens of Japanese ancestry to be confined at internment camps
- After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, only the white athletes were invited to see and meet Roosevelt. No such invitation was made to the African American athletes such as Jesse Owens, who had won four gold medals. Owens said, "Hitler didn't snub me--it was Roosevelt who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."
- Roosevelt segregated his African American and white servants by forbidding them from eating meals together at the White House
- When Roosevelt appointed Hugo Black to the Supreme Court he knew that Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In a memo written by Black decades later, Roosevelt did not express any disapproval of Black's past Klan membership. In private Roosevelt told Black that "some of his best friends and supporters he had in the state of Georgia were strong members of that organization"
- Roosevelt did not enact or even speak in support anti-lynching legislation that would protect African Americans from violence
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