13 Mar 23
@jj-adams saidSounds like he was a collectivist:
I think he was dead-on with his evaluation, what say you?
https://pechorin2.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/theodore-roosevelt-on-race/
T.R.:
capacity to subordinate the interests of the individual to the interests of the community, these and similar rather humdrum qualities go to make up the sum of social efficiency. The race that has them is sure to overturn the race whose members have brilliant intellects, but who are cold and selfish and timid, who do not breed well or fight well, and who are not capable of disinterested love of the community
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14 Mar 23
@suzianne saidYou do know that when Teddy Roosevelt was president, the Republican party was trying to drag the Southern Democrats out of the stone age, and that most blacks were Republicans, in honor of Lincoln.
Roosevelt was a Republican.
Nothing more needs to be said.
You do know that, right?
15 Mar 23
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@jj-adams saidThis BS again?
You do know that when Teddy Roosevelt was president, the Republican party was trying to drag the Southern Democrats out of the stone age, and that most blacks were Republicans, in honor of Lincoln.
You do know that, right?
You do know that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party basically switched sides, don't you? The Civil War era Southern Democrats became Republicans and vice versa. Or did you skip that chapter of US History?
I know DeSantis is busy banning the books he doesn't like about white history, but come on, man, this is common knowledge.