Who was our last openly, gleeful, unapologetically racist President?

[Miles Archer]

This "Pocahontas" shit is getting old.

I'm trying to think of another President who got away with these racist dog whistles, but for the life of me, I can't.

I'm not talking about Presidents who said racist crap that was revealed years later in biographies.

I'm talking about any President who is doing what Trump is doing right now, in office.

[NewJeffCT]

1. Reagan?

with his comments about welfare queens driving Cadillacs. Even that's not as direct as calling Mexicans rapists or bad hombres.

[thucythucy]

2. Ronald Reagan LOVED talking about "welfare queens"

by which he meant single Black mothers.

Nixon's "law and order" campaign also had pretty serious racist undertones.

And Woodrow Wilson was pretty much openly racist--he did, after all, have a screening of "Birth of a Nation" at the White House and praised the film's portrayal of American "history"--i.e., the glorification of the Klan.

But Trump is definitely out there, in terms of any president of the past quarter to half century.

[Portland_Anni]

3. Woodrow Wilson was a very hateful racist.

In fact, he chased many Blacks out of the civil service system. He was also openly hateful and believed the human race should not mix with itself. He is one of my least favorite POTUS of all time.

[Boomerproud]

6. He was indeed a "loyal Son of the South"-nasty piece of work.

His treatment of women merely seeking their right to vote was equally appalling.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. He is not a racist.

At least not in the eyes of almost HALF of this country who think he is doing a GREAT job.

Videos of old immigrant women being dragged out of their homes and being thrown out of the country is what half of the country LIVES for.

[Portland_Anni]

7. He has created a climate where people feel empowered to be more openly racist...

... There are many more incidences of open racist, expressions of intolerance and virulent hatred since he slithered into the White House. Truly Trump infests the office much than occupy it. He alarms and disgusts me greatly.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Do you do podcasts?

https://twitter.com/PodSaveAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

This is their twitter, it is a great podcast of former Obama staffers.

Obama and staff did HUNDREDS of wonderful things for you and me but the media wont tell you that.

[Portland_Anni]

9. Thanks for the link.

I'm pretty savvy with the Internet and have gotten used to the current telephone paradigm, but at 62 am always humble enough to entertain suggestions.

[Portland_Anni]

5. Andrew Jackson who is responsible for the deaths and ...

... suffering of the Trail oF Tears, where the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians of the Southeast were forcibly marched west to an exile in Oklahoma. Racism was mainly what that was about.

[femmocrat]

10. Raygun. Definitely.

Remember the "welfare queen" in the cadillac and the "strapping young buck" on food stamps? He was a disgusting racist hiding behind that jovial facade.

[Mendocino]

13. Or Ronny opening his 1980 campaign

in Neshoba County MS, site of the 1964 KKK triple murders. He gave a speech heavy on states rights.

[BannonsLiver]

11. Trump is basically Jackson v2.0 when it comes to that

I agree with others that Reagan was a bigot. But trump is more overt, welfare queen aside.

[kentuck]

12. At one time, LBJ may have been a bit of a racist?

But, I think he was able to redeem himself once he became President, with the laws he was able to get passed. Unfortunately, the MIC had a war in planning stage and Vietnam tarnished his reputation a lot. Just my opinion.