Who is the most 'racist' politician in American history?

[Egbert]

Blease once buried the severed finger of a black man who had been lynched in the South Carolina gubernatorial garden.

It might be difficult to beat this for just pure racist sentiment, fertilizing state gardens with dead negro parts. Ah, the good old days.

[zack]

I dont take racism from the past seriously...mainly because it was not based on science.

Of course you had the eugenics movement and all that but 'race' as it was known back then tended to be a cultural and phenotypical term.

For example people back in the day they thought each european population was their own race.

There was a 'german race','french race',italian race','slavic race',etc.

Today we lump all these groups together but back in the day it was basically whats described above.

[Jake Featherston]

Robert Byrd once said he'd rather see the Nazis victoriously occupy the USA, than have open inter-marriage with Blacks, or something to that effect. That was before he was a U.S. Senator, however.

[Odoacer]

I believe I did vote for Tillman elsewhere.

[Magister Eckhart]

Other:


The man and his mentor, Elijah Muhammed, actively campaigned for the extermination of our race. Though neither sought public office, this is only because they sought an overthrow of the US government.