Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
"The settler and pioneer [white people] have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages" [(1900)] Source: 'Night -Vision; Illuminating War and Class on the Neo Colonial Terrain' By Butch Lee and Red Rover, P 26, 1993)
The above quotation was spoken when he was still serving as Vice President. It would be another year before the President-elect, William McKinley, his predecessor would be slain by shots to the body at close range by a foreign national. Theodore Roosevelt assumed the Presidency in 1901 just as Lyndon Baines Johnson would sixty-two years later, because assassin's bullets would take the lives of those before them.
Theodore Roosevelt is regarded as one of America's greatest Presidents. He also justified the US invasion of the Philippines and defended American atrocities and human rights abuses there. He is further hailed as the first President to invite a black man to the White house (Booker T Washington) but also as the first to publicly proclaim a death sentence (it was a personal rather than official indictment) on another man of the same race (Jack Johnson) for becoming heavyweight boxing champion of the world seven years later.
The above quotation was spoken when he was still serving as Vice President. It would be another year before the President-elect, William McKinley, his predecessor would be slain by shots to the body at close range by a foreign national. Theodore Roosevelt assumed the Presidency in 1901 just as Lyndon Baines Johnson would sixty-two years later, because assassin's bullets would take the lives of those before them.
Theodore Roosevelt is regarded as one of America's greatest Presidents. He also justified the US invasion of the Philippines and defended American atrocities and human rights abuses there. He is further hailed as the first President to invite a black man to the White house (Booker T Washington) but also as the first to publicly proclaim a death sentence (it was a personal rather than official indictment) on another man of the same race (Jack Johnson) for becoming heavyweight boxing champion of the world seven years later.