Woodrow Wilson Should Stay Canceled

David Frum, in a recent column for The Atlantic, called for the “uncanceling” of Woodrow Wilson. Decrying that both sides of the American political divide don’t hold the 28th President of the United States in high esteem, Frum blames “identity politics” in the “the American left,” and cannot understand why historians once ranked him fourth-most important president in 1948 and 1962, but now are typically quite critical of his legacy, particularly his treatment of Black Americans.

In Frum’s take, Black humanity is a side note, but the experiences of working Black people decimated by Wilson’s segregationist policies should not be an afterthought.

Indeed, among segregationists Wilson was never a firebrand, but the effect of his silences—along with the political power of the racial separatists he appointed—made him one of the most draconian segregationists ever to serve as President of the United States.

Read more at The Daily Beast.