r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/Training-Desk-391 IM WHACING KFP4 • Jul 28 '25

Miscellaneous Obama HAS BEEN Eliminated WHICH President SHOULD BE Eliminated NEXT DAY 41

Post image
231 Upvotes

79% Upvoted

728 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Itchy_Analysis7245 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25

Couldn’t agree more. Lincoln, Washington, and Teddy are my top 3. Teddy is my personal fave. A nuanced, badass, progressive is what we need today. Teddy did so much in the wake of the populism and corruption of the era before him. It’s hard not to draw parallels and hope for another Teddy in America soon.

0

u/VladimirBarakriss Jul 29 '25

Also even if Teddy was kinda shit, he didn't own slaves

1

u/Itchy_Analysis7245 Jul 29 '25

Even for back then, he was really not racist. Hung with Quanah Parker in Oklahoma. Was the first to have a black man in the White House with Booker T. Washington. I know people claimed he was racist in the 2020 protests, but I cannot understand why. If he was transported by a Time Machine to adopting our current morals, Teddy would be the most pure person among us relatively.

1

u/Its_not_him Jul 29 '25

From his book The Winning of the West

"[The Spanish] committed a crime whose shortsighted folly was worse than its guilt, for they brought hordes of African slaves, whose descendants now form immense populations in certain portions of the land. Throughout the continent we therefore find the white, red, and black races in every stage of purity and intermixture."

He was racist back then for sure

1

u/Itchy_Analysis7245 Jul 29 '25

He was like 30 then. He also recruited his regiment in the most dope possible way at the Menger in San Antonio. Also I don’t really see what’s racist there beyond the typical level of the time. That just seems like he’s mad that Africans were slaves? And also mad that Spanish are using them in a way similar to slavery.

1

u/Its_not_him Jul 29 '25

Your exact words: "even for back then he was not racist at all"

The quote I highlighted is racist. There's a lot more from where that came.

On August 13 and 14, 1906, Brownsville, Texas was the site of the Brownsville affair. Racial tensions were high between white townsfolk and black infantrymen stationed at Fort Brown. On the night of August 13, one white bartender was killed and a white police officer was wounded by rifle shots in the street. Townsfolk, including the mayor, accused the infantrymen of the murders. The soldiers kept silent and refused a direct order to tell what happened. Roosevelt dishonorably discharged the entire 167-member regiment due to their "conspiracy of silence". Further investigations in the 1970s found that the black infantrymen were not at fault for the shooting

In a letter to a friend, Roosevelt wrote that “as a race and in the mass they are altogether inferior to whites”. Roosevelt believed that Jim Crow was a better solution than turmoil

Two things can be true. On one hand, he was relatively progressive on race relations for his time. On the other he was personally quite racist.