Racist Comments from Democratic Leaders

Opinion Journal has a shocking compilation of racist statements, some of them uttered in our own time. The list would have been longer if you included the quotes that used the "N-word." One wonders whether Franklin D. Roosevelt felt any compunction over sending over 110,000 Americans and legal residents of Japanese ancestry into internment camps if he said something like this:

"Anyone who has traveled to the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results. . . . The argument works both ways. I know a great many cultivated, highly educated and delightful Japanese. They have all told me that they would feel the same repugnance and objection to have thousands of Americans settle in Japan and intermarry with the Japanese as I would feel in having large numbers of Japanese coming over here and intermarry with the American population. In this question, then, of Japanese exclusion from the United States it is necessary only to advance the true reason--the undesirability of mixing the blood of the two peoples. . . . The Japanese people and the American people are both opposed to intermarriage of the two races--there can be no quarrel there."

--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1925
President, 1933-45

This statement hits home because I have one nephew, and two nieces who are one-half Japanese (their children are all one-quarter Japanese), and each one of them I consider a Gift of God. They are not just beautiful on the outside, but have inherited the best features of both parents.

The poster above, from Amer Asian Films, illustrates some of the "unfortunate results" of racial mixing.