FDR, a Democrat did nothing to allow entry into the USA for 900 jews trying to escape Nazis in 1939.
https://www.history.com/news/wwii-jewish-refugee-ship-st-louis-1939
Excerpt from the above;
"As the M.S.
St. Louis cruised off the coast of Miami in June 1939, its passengers could see the lights of the city glimmering. But the United States hadn’t been on the ship’s original itinerary, and its passengers didn’t have permission to disembark in Florida. As the more than
900 Jewish passengers looked longingly at the twinkling lights, they hoped against hope that they could land.
Those hopes would soon be dashed by immigration authorities,
sending the ship back to Europe. And then, nearly a third of the passengers on the St. Louis were murdered.
Most of the ship’s 937 passengers were Jews trying to escape
Nazi Germany. Though World War II had not yet begun, the groundwork for the
Holocaust was already being laid in Germany, where Jewish people faced harassment, discrimination and political persecution. But though the danger faced by the passengers was clear, they were turned down by immigration authorities, first by Cuba, then the United States and Canada. For many on the
St. Louis, that rejection was a death sentence....
The world’s refusal of the
St. Louis’ desperate refugees was a
death sentence for 254 refugees—approximately half of the number who had returned to the European continent in 1939. Many who did not die were interned in concentration camps, like Max Korman, who
built on lessons learned on the ship to help organize inmates of the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands."
Shame on FDR but racism in the Democrat party didn't start with him... Let us not forget Democrat President Woodrow Wilson's record of racial prejudice against blacks;
en.wikipedia.org
"
While Wilson's tenure is often noted for progressive achievement, his time in office was one of
unprecedented regression in racial equality, with his presidency serving as the lowest point of the
nadir of American race relations.
Several historians have spotlighted examples in the public record of
Wilson's racist policies and political appointments, such as the segregationists in his Cabinet. Other sources note Wilson defended segregation on "scientific" grounds in private, and describe him as a man who "loved to tell racist '
darky' jokes about black Americans."
The above are shameful examples of American history. Did you notice both both of those racists in chief were Democrats?