NONE OF THOSE RACISTS THAT WERE TALKING SH!T COULD EVEN HOLD AN INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION WITH HIM… BUT SOMEHOW HE WAS THE “PROBLEM”🙄 #TeamDL #americanhistoryx #racism #asamericanasapplepie #Repost joyannreid On October 16, 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invited his adviser, African American spokesman Booker T. Washington to dine with him and his family. Several other presidents had invited African-Americans to meetings at the White House but never to a meal. The White House released a statement headed, "Booker T Washington of Tuskegee, Alabama, dined with the President last evening." The response from the southern press & politicians was immediate and vicious. James K. Vardaman, governor of Mississippi complained that the White House was now, "so saturated with the odor of nigger that the rats had taken refuge in the stable;" the Memphis Scimitar declared it "the most damnable outrage which has ever been perpetrated by any citizen of the United States” & the Missouri Sedalia Senti...