We Deserve Better

If the 20th and 21st centuries taught us anything it's that the greatness of America is not to be found in our leaders, but in our people. We are a strong, generous, hard-working, moral people, a combination of every country of the world, all within a framework of freedom, in a Constitutional Republic...the greatest country in the world that deserves the greatest leaders in the world. But, when you look at our leaders of the past 100+ years, we deserved better, much better.

Starting with Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ, 1913 - 1921), he was born in Virginia and lived in Georgia. He was an extreme racist, even by the standards of the early 20th century. He wrote a history text praising the Confederacy and the KKK. Due to Reconstruction, Washington at the time was pretty much integrated. Neither Wilson nor his wife were going to put up with any of that integration stuff. So, he resegregated the federal government including the White House. In essence, he reversed what hundreds of thousands of men died and bled for just 50 years earlier. They couldn't bring back slavery, but they did try to reverse any Black American progress seen since the end of the Civil War.