Showing posts with label Woodrow Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woodrow Wilson. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Cruz control, and Princeton backs a segregationist.

Image result for cruz images Congrats to Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders for winning their primaries in cheesehead country tonight.

It has been a tough week for Donald trump, the orange one has made more than a few missteps, and now the cracks are starting to show. (Five different positions on abortion in three days?)

Ted Cruz, who always sounds like he is auditioning for a Shakespearean play, was downright giddy tonight.  I tried listening  to Ted's victory speech but it was hard. That face. Dude was quoting JFK and taking about a safe and "sane" future for the country. He was calling for "unity" for crying out loud. Yes, this Ted Cruz. 

On the dem side Hillary is obviously going to have to get used to Bernie and his peeps "feeling the Bern." The old man is not going away, and neither, apparently, is the FBI.     

Finally, one of America's finest institutions of higher learning has decided to keep their monuments to a racist.

"Princeton University's board of trustees has decided that it will not remove Woodrow Wilson's name from its School of Public and International Affairs and from a residential college, despite student protests over the former president's segregationist views.

At the same time, the trustee committee weighing the issue said the university "needs to be honest and forthcoming about its history." It adds: "This requires transparency in recognizing Wilson's failings and shortcomings as well as the visions and achievements that led to the naming of the school and the college in the first place."

I hear ya Princeton, but being a devoted segregationist and blocking African American students from entering your university is more than just a matter of "failings".

But this is what happens when you are on the wrong side of history, it always comes back to bite you.

*Pic from gawker.com