Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150430170122/@comment-26038416-20150511215721

Minamoto15 wrote: AllstarUchiha wrote: While I don't think neither were bad Hokage, but I do think Tobirama was blinded by his own distrust for him to led the village properly.

What Tobirama did was wrong, he went against Hashirama's wishes and should have never separated the Uchiha to their own section in the tail end of the village and then gave them the police force so they can be spied on and not trusted. The Uchiha's were doing nothing wrong, in fact, to the point where they turned against Madara. So there was no reason for Tobirama to do what he did, he did that because he was still holding on to distrust and rage from the "Warring States". The Uchiha aren't stupid, they realized what was going on and that's on things starting going south and then with the Obito's attack on Konoha only made things worse.

At least, Hiruzen actually tried to do something to help the Uchiha and the village, though it didn't work because it led to the Uchiha massacre, but at least he was more open to working things out with the Uchiha and starting fresh then Tobirama was. That being said, I don't hate Tobirama, but he's not on my list as one of my favorites. I'm gonna assume you actually read the manga, so please forgive me if I sound a tad judgmental in my response to this one-sided argument you're making. It'll only take two points:

1) Hashirama asked Tobirama not to ostracize the Uchiha; he clearly didn't. In fact, Tobirama was a lot nicer than I would've been, because in no way, knowing what I know about the Uchiha and the source of their power, would I have ever given them the police force. Are you even aware of the amount of authority Tobirama giftwrapped them? Please. The Uchiha were coddled, but were too blinded by their own clan-pride to see it. Tobirama's job was to ensure peace and prosperity for the VILLAGE, not the Uchiha. Any ill-feelings they harbored was their own problem, not Tobirama's.

2) In what world did Tobirama shove the Uchiha to back of the village? That only happened AFTER the Nine-Tails attack and Tobirama was LONG dead by then. You can't rationally tie that back to him. If you want to pin your blames on anyone, pin it on Danzō because that's just how he was. Even Hiruzen deserves minimal blame, because there's only so much you can do 1 vs. 3 (Danzō and other two advisors). Even Tobi said that Hiruzen did everything he could to try to solve things peacefully.

I've read the manga, my point is don't go acting like Tobirama and all of the high ups in Konoha are all squeaky clean and the Uchiha's were the problem. Tobirama gave them the police force to spy on them and they weren't even apart of governing affairs in Konoha, Tobirama didn't trust the Uchiha or give them a fair chance like Hashirama did. The Uchiha left Madara's side because they wanted to be with Konoha, it was others who weren't letting grudges go. Some of the high ups in Konoha did a lot of wrong things that led to events that didn't have to happen. The blame doesn't just go on one person, there's Tobirama and like you said Danzo, amongst others. Hiruzen was trying to give the Uchiha's a chance more than Tobirama did. Tobirama isn't squeaky clean on the matter.