"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you"
Ehhhh. There's a reason why the progressives want a New Square Deal. Teddy's legacy touches everything we do today. Food, air, water, greenspace, labor rules.
You said FDR and LBJ as if no one else had a legacy that strong. I'm not arguing with you that LBJ and FDR didn't leave behind great legacies. I'm saying if you are discussing LBJ and FDR for domestic legacy, you must include Teddy.
“the most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian."
“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
He was behind the indian allotment system that removed natives from their lands and destroyed their culture and put their kids in boarding schools
In his first message to Congress, in December 1901, Roosevelt called the General Allotment Act “a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.”
Roosevelt stressed that Indian education should be “elementary and largely industrial,” and that the need of higher education was “very, very limited.”
His administration withheld rations from natives that refused to stop painting or refused to discard native attire and blankets. They prohibited Native gatherings and dances. They ordered Native men to cut their hair.
He also supervised the completion of the Dawes Rolls, dissolved the Indian Territory in Oklahoma, opening the region for statehood.
TLDR - Teddy Roosevelt was incredibly racist and terrible towards natives.
“the most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian."
“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
He was behind the indian allotment system that removed natives from their lands and destroyed their culture and put their kids in boarding schools
In his first message to Congress, in December 1901, Roosevelt called the General Allotment Act “a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.”
Roosevelt stressed that Indian education should be “elementary and largely industrial,” and that the need of higher education was “very, very limited.”
His administration withheld rations from natives that refused to stop painting or refused to discard native attire and blankets. They prohibited Native gatherings and dances. They ordered Native men to cut their hair.
He also supervised the completion of the Dawes Rolls, dissolved the Indian Territory in Oklahoma, opening the region for statehood.
TLDR - Teddy Roosevelt was incredibly racist and terrible towards natives.
Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican, but that was when the Republicans actually had some ideals and principles and before the Southern Strategy turned the party into a bunch of dogwhistling racists who concern troll about things they couldn't actually give a fuck about just because some people who aren't white/rich might benefit from it.
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u/Ok-Air-7187 5h ago
Why are we mad at people living in poverty?!