Roosevelt’s Racist Roots Exposed: Taft’s Lilywhiteism Wins Chicago Convention

In a shocking turn of events, the recent Chicago Republican national convention has laid bare the party’s racist undertones. On June 27, 1908, the delegates gathered to unanimously nominate William Howard Taft, a decision that has been met with widespread criticism from Afro-American communities. The Gazette, Ohio’s oldest and largest Afro-American newspaper, has uncovered the disturbing truth behind Taft’s nomination: it was a blatant endorsement of Lilywhiteism, a racist ideology that seeks to maintain white supremacy.