{"id":373641,"date":"2018-08-16T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anything-is-nice-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T17:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T16:31:39","slug":"anything-is-nice-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anything-is-nice-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything Is Nice &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive mansion. This was an unprecedented move. No African-American had ever been asked to dine with the president, and while neither Roosevelt or his staff said much of the event, it was surely done in the spirit of reconciliation and Roosevelt\u2019s desire to be \u201cthe people\u2019s president.\u201d Reaction to the visit was mixed. The pro-Republican press tended to support Roosevelt\u2019s unexpected gesture while Democratic organs, North and South, either questioned Roosevelt\u2019s intentions or denounced the meeting altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Historians have mostly focused on the Southern response to the event, primarily \u201cPitchfork\u201d Ben Tillman\u2019s vicious statements condemning the dinner as a slippery slope toward the creation and acceptance of a \u201cmongrel race.\u201d But less than one month later, William Jennings Bryan dedicated nearly three pages of his personal newspaper\u00a0<em>The Commoner\u00a0<\/em>to what one Southern paper called the \u201cpeculiar\u201d interview. Bryan was no race baiter. He showed sympathy toward African-Americans and argued that they were as capable of \u201cself-government\u201d as any member of white American society, yet he also believed in the status quo in regard to race relations. Bryan wrote that he:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026hoped that both of them will upon reflection realize the wisdom of abandoning their purpose to wipe out race lines, if they entertain such a purpose. Prof. Washington\u2019s work as an educator will be greatly impaired if he allows it to be understood that his object is to initiate the members of his race into the social circles of the whites, and he will do injustice to those of his own color if he turns their thoughts away from intellectual and moral&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/brion-mcclanahan\/anything-is-nice-if-it-come-from-dixieland\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the executive mansion. This was an unprecedented move. No African-American had ever been asked to dine with the president, and while neither Roosevelt or his staff said much of the event, it was surely done in the spirit of reconciliation and Roosevelt\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}