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In reply to the discussion: 9 Ways FDR's 'New Deal' Purposely Excluded Blacks [View all]Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)FDR's policies were far from perfect, especially when racial equality was still 20 years away from even being tried.
But the idea that his economic policies wouldn't work again because of that shortcoming, doesn't make sense. The only reason People of Colour had it bad in those days is because the New Deal in itself was not enough to help them. But that doesn't mean we should never have a new deal again; we definitely should! Not for the sake of nostalgia, but for the sake of our society! Only this time we must pointedly include People of Colour in the intended beneficiaries. (As they should have been in the first place.)
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If we are going to play a round of identity politics, allow me to introduce the plight of LGBT people in those days - we were still 30 years away from even fighting off the daily harrassing by the police. But even when FDR did nothing for LGBT people in those days - his economic policies were still very helpful, and they were not "homophobic by association with shortcomings with regard to sexual minorities".