LEADING BY EXAMPLE

 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 in the President's Office. 

President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, which integrated the US Armed Forces. 

President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce Brown v. Board of Education and integrate Central High School over Governor Faubus's refusal to comply with Brown. 

President Kennedy proposed a Civil Rights Bill which President Johnson signed into law as the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

Martin Luther King dreamed of a world where his children were judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. 

President Reagan said "Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands."

On December 2, 2025, the current president of the United States, during a Cabinet Meeting, called US Representative Ilhan Omar "Garbage" (she is of Somali descent) and then said about the Somali population: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason, and I don't want them in our country." 

So much for judging a person as an individual instead of as a class of people. 

Somalis are garbage. 

Irish are drunks. 

Italians are thieves. 

Jews are money hungry. 

Asians are sneaky.

Civil lawyers are pernicious, and people from Hialeah are weird. (Ok, some depictions are truer than not). 

We have a president who is spouting racist tropes as his way of leading by example. America 2025.