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Teddy was one of those Very Incredibly Interesting Folks. An honest man, a racist, a dedicated champion of the people, and a war-hawk jingo. He lived his life thumping his chest and was only broken when war took his son. Decades of rough living and the only thing that could break him was love
He was probably about average in terms of racism for his time period - and somewhat less racist than many politicians in power at the time. But that's damnation by faint praise as much as anything.
I'll cop to context being important. He was an incredibly progressive guy and most of his more extreme views were more jingo than racial hierarchy