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Today’s progressives should consider the sobering history of Woodrow Wilson’s segregation policy. By Paul A. Rahe
April 11, 2013
...inaugurated on March 4, 1913. At a cabinet meeting on April 11, his postmaster general, Albert S. Burleson, suggested that the new administration segregate the railway mail service;
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He was the very model of a modern Progressive, and he was recognized as such.
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Prior to the segregation of the civil service in 1913, appointments had been made solely on merit as indicated by the candidate’s performance on the civil-service examination. Thereafter, racial discrimination became the norm. Photographs came to be required at the time of application, and African-Americans knew they would not be hired.
And, BTW, Hilary Clinton describes herself as a Modern Progressive
It's that ol' bamboozle in his eyes....
Dwelling on Hillary Clinton's status as a Modern Progressive makes you sexist and when Obama's 2010 Freedom of Speech Act takes effect in 2014 you will be rounded up with the others you've been warned.
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