On Roosevelt

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In regard to the OP:
I myself am an American largely of German stock on both sides. My family has had a long memory, and I can honestly say, I had never heard occasion of German Americans being targeted with discrimination in the WWII era, particularly by the government. Now, the WWI era was very different, with German Americans being targeted as imagined fifth columnists - along with pacifists, labor radicals, leftists, and eventually blacks and Jews (it's no accident that the KKK was reborn in that political atmosphere) all under the aegis of the Wilson administration. But the period of time before, and of, the Second World War, the question of German American loyalty wasn't a concern, with the exception of a Pro-Nazi minority. Far from it, the Roosevelt administration purposely placed many generals with German names at the helm of the war effort. In fact, while Roosevelt is a Dutch name, the Roosevelt family themselves have a degree of German ancestry.

“Negro” is a discredited term in the United States. It is still used in a neutral sense in the Caribbean.

It is acceptable to call a black person “black” in some contexts.....but using it as a descriptive adjective (in a racial sense) invites a fight.

In polite company, “African-American,” or a “person of African origins” is acceptable. “Black” is not polite. “People of color” is used for all “non-white” people.

It’s a misnomer, really, to call about 99% of people of African origins who live in the US “black.”

They wouldn’t get away with it in NYC.

Unless it’s a Caribbean talking to another Caribbean.

Some very old people still use “colored.”

Why is negro a racist word? It is a word that fallen out of use. Dated does not equate to racist.
Unlike n****r, negro was almost always used as a descriptor not a slur. I have not heard a whole bunch of people using negro as a slur or using negro at all. Maybe a few SJW’s are hearing it all over the used as a slur. Today’s racists use code words or expressions like black crime, them, bad element, lowlifes, pro white etc.

Do we need to redact or change all historical documents, records, old media online and in libraries so as not offend people?

By about 1968, the news media in the US stopped using “negro” in any context. It was replaced by “black,” primarily.

It was considered demeaning, from my experience, to call someone a “negro.” Sort if like calling a black male “boy.” Both were fighting words.

Soon, it will be the 100th Anniversary of The Second World War. Then, and only then, shall the entire truth of the matter come out, once and for all. We shall learn more about Roosevelt and the skeletons in his closet.

Speaking of Franklin Roosevelt, that icon of the Democratic Party:

A Date That Should Live in Infamy
Never forget Executive Order 9066

On February 19, 1942 — seventy-four years ago today — Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. With the stroke of his pen, the man who had earlier snubbed Jesse Owens after the Berlin Olympics used his executive powers to order the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II.

Most of the internees were natural-born American citizens, whose “crime” was having a parent or merely a grandparent with Japanese blood. It was an act of naked, aggressive racism that damaged people and families, including my own, for generations.

https://fee.org/articles/american-infamy/

there is no evidence that the GOP wouldn't have done the same thing if not worse.