Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Night of Terror

A hundred years ago today, my grandmother, Hattie F Kruger, and several other women petitioned the White House, Woodrow Wilson specifically, for the right to vote. Wilson in his classic manner had them arrested and jailed. It became what is known as the "Night of Terror".

My grandmother and six other women were placed in cells, hosed down in the freezing weather of the unheated prison, force fed by hose, and generally brutalized by command of Wilson. Yet today we still have Wilson "this and that" including a collection at Princeton. So we take down Lee, a person who I am not fond of since he defied his oath as a soldier, but Wilson remains at a pinnacle. Wilson, a man who was both a racist and anti-Semite, and who personally took a hand in torturing these women who asked for nothing more than the vote. They just asked, with a sign, and Wilson had them dragged and tortured well beyond Guantanamo.

Thus as we seem to be aghast at Hollywood, which should be no surprise if one looks at their products, we should also be aghast at this man. Woodrow Wilson.

Just a reminder of things past.