It always gives me pause to remember that Woodrow Wilson's father was Rev. Joseph R. Wilson whose First Presbyterian Church hosted the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Confederate States of America (later PCUS). 
Rev. Wilson presided as the Stated Clerk for the southern Presbyterian denomination for nearly 40 years. In addition, he preached a well-known sermon called "The Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves" which defended race-based chattel slavery on supposedly biblical grounds.
Woodrow Wilson continued his father's racist patterns while president. The younger Wilson allowed the re-segregation of several federal government departments and famously railed at W.E.B. DuBois and William Trotter that segregation was "not humiliating but a benefit."
Anyway, the children of racists and white supremacists can easily grow up to become racists and white supremacists themselves. They may even grow up to be president.
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