Foreigners are entitled to their opinion of American presidents
Who is a more racist American president than obama in your lifetime?
- One would say that Reagan has some racist issues, he took the Southern Route to the presidency, during the first year of his presidency median income of black families dropped 5.2%. Then he went on the war on drugs, which was also not positive for blacks.
And generations is more than just my generation
- For example FDR racially imprisoned more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in camps, while not doing the same with German and Italian US citizens.
When White Olympians were being invited to the White House in 1936, Jesse Owens, quadruple Olympic gold medalist was not invited.
And the New Deal in some parts and in some aspects negatively affected black Americans (Farmers and domestics, the main Southern black vocations where excluded from the New Deal's minimum wage, social security, unemployment insurance, and unionizing rights). And as it was not enough federal relief was administered by local Southern government and we all know how racist it was back then before the human rights fight. New Deal initiatives (also in the North) coded black neighborhoods as unsuitable for new mortgages.
- Eisenhower is not blameless, it is not like he fought for the end of segregation in the South now did he. He was not a fan of Brown V. board of education and dragged his feet in enforcing it. In fact sending those soldiers he named as:
A constitutional duty which was the most repugnant to him of all his acts in his eight years in the White House.
And as we are talking about Generations, which would include my grandmother and grandfather who were born in 1917 and 1912, this would include:
Coolidge, who handled the flooding of the Great Mississippi river by flooding black riverside communities. And some sources write:
thousands of displaced Blacks were forced to work for their rations under the gun of the National Guard and area planters, leading to a conflagration of mass beatings, lynchings, and rapes.
President Coolidge also signed arguably the most racist and ethnocentric immigration act in history, an act championed by Republican eugenicists and Democratic Klansmen. The Immigration Act of 1924 was co-authored by Washington Congressman Albert Johnson, well-schooled in theories of “yellow peril” that had rationalized discrimination against west coast Asians for decades. The bipartisan measure further restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe, severely restricted African immigrants, and banned the immigrations of Arabs and Asians. “America must be kept American,” President Coolidge had said during his first annual message to Congress in 1923.
Woodrow Wilson once viewed Birth of a Nation at the White House during my grandfather's lifetime, in a book Wilson wrote:
“The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.”
Clinton is also not very racially pure, who was among three state officials the NCAAP sued for suppressing the black vote.
And let us not forget democrat LBJ who said about Truman's civil rights proposal in 1948:
…is a farce and a sham…I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill … I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill.
Because let us be honest, most democratic presidents from the South in the first part of the 20th century as well as in the middle of the 20th century came from a democratic party that was extremely racist and I am sure those Southern Democrats did not all of a sudden changed their spots when the democrats became the supposed party of civil rights. This is in no way a hit job on republicans because that is not the reality, often republicans in the early parts of the 20th century were more civil rights minded than the democrats from the South in that time.
So all in all, no, Obama is still not the most racist.