During the time DC’s former “Mayor for life” was still alive and kicking, Marion Barry had managed to push through scandal after scandal. One such incident, ever so slight and nearly invisible, did manage to tip off the consciousness of a few liberals during the first several weeks of his final term in office, when Barry commented on what the city should do with the sudden influx of Chinese immigrants coming into Washington DC:
“We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go, I’ll just say that right now, you know.”
“Somebody has to stop them from tearing up China Town!”
7. Woodrow Wilson
Holla at the dude who re-segregated the military, Wilson is definitely a major historical figure whose faults seep into the cracks of history and are absent from a majority of history textbooks all across the country. Without going into too much detail, here’s a little insight into Woodrow’s wild world of white supremacy:
“The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”
–Wilson’s book, A History of the American People
“The domestic slaves [blacks], at any rate, and almost all who were much under the master’s eye, were happy and well cared for.”
–Discussing the post-reconstruction south
So what’s so “progressive” about this dude again? (chirping crickets)
FOR MORE RACIST WILSON QUOTES, CLICK HERE 6. Lyndon B. Johnson
Though some call him a champion of civil rights, getting people the right to vote for you and actually liking the people going out to vote for you seemed to be two very separate issues in the mind of LBJ.
A 2014 MSNBC article did a fantastic job at highlighting the fact that even though he pushed through necessary voting reforms for millions of black Americans, he did it to ensure Democrats would get the black vote in future elections, not because he actually liked them, or other people of color for that matter:
–“Johnson would calibrate his pronunciations by region, using “nigra” with some southern legislators and “negra” with others. Discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, he’d simply call it “the nigger bill.” “
-“Johnson spent the late 1940s railing against the “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves” in East Asia. Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn’t afraid of snakes?) he’d drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it.”
-“According to Caro, Robert Parker, Johnson’s sometime chauffer, described in his memoir Capitol Hill in Black and Whitea moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “nigger” or “chief.” When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.” “
5. George Wallace
The man who championed “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” is vilified within the aisles of history by both modern liberals and conservatives for his anti civil rights and segregation stance, yet what is often left out is that fact that Wallace was one of Alabama’s most favorite Democrat governors:
“In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw a line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.”
4. Jesse Jackson
When competing for the 1984 Democrat primary for president, Jesse Jackson wasn’t shy about his description of New York City:
Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown” in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson’s rocky relations with American Jews.
3. Mary Frances Berry
Former Bush administration employee and friend of the Obama administration, current professor at the University of Pennsylvania was one of the lead chargers to paint the Tea Party as racist going back to 2009 in order to push the progressive agenda and distract people from the real issues affecting the country.
“Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.”
2. Jeremiah Wright
Chicago preacher Jeremiah Wright, a confidant to the Obama family, began to stir the media pot when it was discovered that he held a strong view of being adamantly anti white, and overall, anti-American:
Wright blasted people who he described as “biscuits” and “sheep dogs” — African Americans raised in the white world.
“Take that baby, him or her away, from the African mother, away from the African community, away from the African experience … and put them Africans over at the breasts of Yale, Harvard, University of Chicago … UCLA or UC-Berkeley,” he said. “Turn them into biscuits. Let them get that alien DNA all up inside their brain and they will turn on their own people in defense of the ones who are keeping their own people under oppression. Sheep dogs.”
“There’s white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.”
1. Margaret Sanger
Much like other progressive idols such as Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, and Jesse Jackson, Margaret Sanger’s legacy known as Planned Parenthood, was never intended for the simply women’s health purposes today’s liberals foam at the mouth trying to protect from criticism. Sanger, a provocative eugenicist, spent her life trying to exterminate the black population, even speaking at a number of KKK events :
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race” and even said, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
