"The growing movement to find new appellations for buildings, landmarks and even bodies of water named after Confederate leaders has finally expanded to reach Woodrow Wilson, America’s 28th president, a model progressive Democrat and a world-class racist scumbag.

A history teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Portland, Ore. is lobbying for the school to change its name, reports local CBS affiliate KOIN-TV.

The teacher, Hyung Nam, has been calling for a new name for Wilson High for several months.

"We’d have to be ignorant about history to continue to affiliate ourselves with this man,” the history teacher wrote in an April 22 email to all staffers.

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How much of a racist was Wilson? He was such a racist that AlterNet, the activist-progressive news outlet, labeled him as America’s most racist modern president.

When Wilson was the president of Princeton University, he steadfastly claimed that no black person had ever or would ever apply to the Ivy League school (which now boasts a college named for him).

“The whole temper and tradition of the place are such that no Negro has ever applied for admission, and it seems unlikely that the question will ever assume practical form,” the man who would become president in 1913 said.

Wilson was a vocal advocate of Jim Crow laws in the South. He prevented black Americans from fighting in World War I. He signed a law against interracial marriage. He also ordered all federal offices to be totally segregated, notes PBS, telling critics: “The purpose of these measures was to reduce the friction. It is as far as possible from being a movement against the Negroes. I sincerely believe it to be in their interest.”

In a book entitled “A History of the American People,” Wilson sympathized with the Ku Klux Klan, calmly arguing that Klansmen “began to attempt by intimidation what they were not allowed to attempt by the ballot or by any ordered course of public action.”

While the movement to rename Wilson High School and other things honoring Wilson has generated very little momentum, the movement to rename or destroy buildings and other things honoring other advocates of racist segregation or slavery is definitely gaining steam."

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/04/moveme...woodrow-wilson/

Oh, btw, yet another Democrat.

I would prefer we remove his name from everything based simply on the incredible damage this arrogant little putz did to the Republic. But I'll settle for this because he was such a cretin.

All this PC hysteria reminds me of how the ancient Egyptians would do battle over who was to be Pharaoh, and when one side or the other won out after the death of somebody, would strike the name of the other side's Pharaoh from all monuments and public buildings. "See! See! He never existed. Find his name anywhere." We haven't gone that far yet, but maybe it's just a matter of time.

Eventually every dead white guy's name will be removed and replaced with Cesar Chavez, MLK, Rosa Parks, etc.

That's been going on in California for some time.