Quote: (05-13-2015 12:45 PM)Truth Teller Wrote:
Quote: (05-13-2015 12:39 PM)TheWastelander Wrote:
I'm sure they'd find something to bitch about in regards to Teddy Roosevelt, like his hunting or whatever, but Eisenhower is virtually unassailable. No provable evidence of racism and he led the Western armies that defeated the ultimate eternal left-wing boogeymen villains of pure evil forever and ever, the Nazis.
People will bitch about Theodore Roosevelt's belief in the White Man's Burden, and say things like "he was a racist." That is committing the sin of presentism (looking at the past through the lens of the present). In reality, TR's beliefs weren't particularly different from the majority of people at the time.
The term 'White Man's Burden' came from Rudyard Kipling's poem which was written around the time the US fought Spain in decline over the Philippines.
It was a warning to the US to not become the global policeman/ imperialist as the UK had become but to remain true to the views of the Founding Fathers that the US should keep out of international intrigue beyond exercising the Monroe Doctrine.
As we know, the US has abandoned this principle from the Woodrow Wilson era and the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913.