Petition seeks to rename Roosevelt Island, calls FDR ‘racist’

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By the time this is all over this country will have no history left. Obama will be the founding father of America at this rate and anything before him will be racist and cast aside

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According to the Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), after Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China, unified China in 221 BC, his chancellor Li Si suggested suppressing intellectual discourse to unify thought and political opinion.

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Chancellor Li Si Said: "I, your servant, propose that all historians' records other than those of Qin's be burned. With the exception of the academics whose duty includes possessing books, if anyone under heaven has copies of the Shi Jing [Classic of Poetry], the Shujing [Classic of History], or the writings of the hundred schools of philosophy, they shall deliver them (the books) to the governor or the commandant for burning. Anyone who dares to discuss the Shi Jing or the Classic of History shall be publicly executed. Anyone who uses history to criticize the present shall have his family executed. Any official who sees the violations but fails to report them is equally guilty. Anyone who has failed to burn the books after thirty days of this announcement shall be subjected to tattooing and be sent to build the Great Wall. The books that have exemption are those on medicine, divination, agriculture, and forestry. Those who have interest in laws shall instead study from officials."[a]
—Shiji Chapter 6. "The Basic Annals of the First Emperor of Qin" thirty-fourth year (213 BC)

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In addition to making Jesse Owens lose face in front of all other Olympic athletes, ol' Franky also signed Executive Order 9066, the act that determined a group of Americans should be imprisoned because of their race

When it came to appointing a new supreme court justice, PotUS Roosevelt appointed former KKK member Hugo Black. When Hugo was a senator in Alabama he infamously filibustered an anti-lynching bill. Hugo also wrote positively of Roosevelt in his memoirs, specifically pointing out that while the KKK was increasingly being frowned upon by the American public, Roosevelt considered that a positive on his part:

"[Roosevelt's] best friends and supporters he had in the state of Georgia were strong members of that organization."
Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Kindle locations 2636 -- 2657.

Hugo Black would go on to repay FDR with the Korematsu v. United States case that defended the constitutionality of imprisoning people of Japanese descent in America. Though Black also approved of desegregating American schools he warned that the peaceful Civil Rights movement would give way to violence if Black Americans were not kept under control:

“Unfortunately there are some who think that Negroes should have special privileges under the law.”
-Newman,Hugo Black p. 550

Ironically Hugo Black saw himself as a defender of the 1st amendment (free speech) in America, he just thought that non-European Americans were 'abusing' it in their Civil Rights movement.

When a guy uses RACE as a component in imprisoning people, then talks about how his good buddies are KKK members to a former KKK member he's appointing as a supreme court justice, yeah you can call him a racist.

The Sphinx - sculpture at the FDR presidential library

That said, on to the anecdote: in "Devil in the Grove", there's an anecdote recounted by a young Thurgood Marshall:

Attorney General Francis Biddle phoned FDR to discuss the NAACP's involvement in a race case in Virginia. At Biddle's instruction, Marshall picked up an extension to listen in, only to hear FDR exclaim, "I warned you not to call me again about any of Eleanor's ****s. Call me one more time and you are fired."

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