“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” – Native American proverb
INTRODUCTION
Thursday Dec. 12, 2024 – The recent resurgence of anti-Semitism all over the world has been very disturbing to say the least. Apparently we did not learn anything from the Holocaust. This blog post accuses FDR and the 73rd U.S. Congress of starting the Holocaust. Filipinos who were in fact American nationals until they were reclassified as “aliens” after March 24, 1934 when the Tydings-McDuffie Act became the law. It was much later, a year and half later on September 15, 1935 that Hitler and the Nazis enacted the Nuremberg Laws.
Here are the signs that FDR and the Democrat-dominated US Congress were very racist.
1.) Pres. Franklin Roosevelt continued to fund the Tuskegee Experiment when the cash-strapped government was struggling with the Great Depression. FDR could have stopped the funding of these Nazi-like medical experiments in 1933. FDR was way ahead of Hitler and the Nazis in cruel and inhuman medical experiments.
2.) In 1935 FDR refused to publicly endorse the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill for fear of losing the support of Southern Democrats in the coming 1936 presidential election.
3.) In 1936 FDR snubbed African-American Jesse Owens who won several gold medals in the Berlin Olympics. FDR didn’t send a telegram to Jesse Owens to personally acknowledge his victories or that of the 18 other triumphant African American Olympians. No African-American athlete was invited to the White House, only white athletes. Again the reason was FDR’s fear of losing the support of Southern Democrats in the coming presidential election. In 1936, only white athletes were allowed to visit FDR in the White House.
4.) On June 5, 1939 FDR did not even respond to the Captain of MS St. Louis who sought asylum on behalf of his passengers. The MS St. Louis left Havana on June 2 after the ship was denied entry in Havana and the passengers’ visas were invalidated by the Cuban government. Once again FDR feared losing the support of southern Democrats in the coming 1940 presidential elections.
5.) During the 1920s, when Roosevelt was already a seasoned politician and a vice presidential candidate, he expressed racist views in editorials and interviews. Regarding new immigrants — and Asians in particular — he bemoaned the creation of ethnic “colonies” in major cities.
During these key years before Roosevelt entered the White House, he also wrote and spoke about “the mingling of white with Oriental blood” and preserving other forms of “racial purity.” According to Medoff, all of this was part of a long-held worldview that later guided Roosevelt during his three terms in office.“Roosevelt’s unflattering statements about Jews consistently reflected one of several interrelated notions: that it was undesirable to have too many Jews in any single profession, institution, or geographic locale; that America was by nature, and should remain, an overwhelmingly white, Protestant country; and that Jews on the whole possessed certain innate and distasteful characteristics,” wrote Medoff.
Even after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November of 1938, Roosevelt refused to criticize the leaders of Nazi Germany.
In 1939, as the world went to war, Hitler broadcast his intentions to annihilate European Jewry. Simultaneously, FDR refused to support a bill that would have let 20,000 Jewish German adolescents into the US. Anne Frank and her sister Margot could have qualified to be included, since they were German citizens and under age 16, said Medoff.
From the article: Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans
In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust [“The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust.” (2019)], Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler By MATT LEBOVIC 4 November 2019, 4:52 pm (created Tue. Feb. 25, 2025) https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-new-evidence-shows-fdrs-bigotry-derailed-many-holocaust-rescue-plans/amp
Sources: Holocaust: Voyage of SS St Louis (Bienvenido Macario, Philippines) 10/21/06 at 9:08am
FDR’s Isolationism and the MS St Louis (Bienvenido Macario, USA 01/29/13 6:51 am)
Let me say again, what Hitler did to the Jews and other races the Nazis deemed inferior is the worst crime against humanity. But why do we hold FDR and the southern Democrats to a different standard?
No. 5 – Book: “The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust.” (2019) By Rafael Medoff
March 24, 2022 – On this day in 1934, President Frankline Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Tydings-McDuffie Act also known as the “Philippine Independence Act” passed by the 73rd Congress.
First Abandonment of the U.S. territory, the Philippines – 1934
Initially posted October 9, 2014 and updated on September 21, 2018.
Tydings-McDuffie Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tydings%E2%80%93McDuffie_Act
73rd United States Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_United_States_Congress
Blog – LOOK! A U.S. PASSPORT (No. 26859) OF A FILIPINO CITIZEN WITH ALLEGIANCE TO THE USA ISSUED ON MARCH 15, 1930 signed by U.S. GOV. GEN. DWIGHT DAVIS more famously known as the founder of the INTERNATIONAL DAVIS CUP TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
STOP THE BIAS AGAINST FILIPINOS! RESTORE the AMERICAN NATIONALITY of ALL QUALIFIED FILIPINOS & ISSUE THE CORRESPONDING U.S. PASSPORTS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO RELOCATE ANYWHERE IN THE USA AND ELSEWHERE.
What is the solution to this injustice going back 88 years ago?
THE NUREMBERG LAWS ENACTED ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1935
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