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13. For the white people, you mean.

Reply to not fooled (Reply #9)

Sat May 2, 2020, 10:49 PM

May 2020

The more I read about FDR and what he DIDN'T do before the war, (he helped block anti-lynching laws,) and what he did during the war. (Locking up Japanese-Americans.)

It wasn't until after the war, when Truman desegregated the troops that actual Presidential action started the destruction of white supremacy.

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