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In reply to the discussion: 9 Ways FDR's 'New Deal' Purposely Excluded Blacks [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)There are those who do think of FDR times as rosy, I am not one.
However, if I was asked if I am an FDR democrat, I say I am closer to him than many other Democrats, not because of racial policy (which was wanting) but because ever since reagan, we have backtracked from what little progress we had. I do not proclaim FDR is a Zenith, I define him as a Bottom, the sort of mark that says "Come on, we cannot dig lower than that point or else we will cave ourselves in."
Do we need programs that are equal to, or even dwarf, the New deal made for the purposes of bringing about social justice, Yes, and yes, a lot of that effort must be to directed for AA's to ensure that not only do "black lives matter" but that those lives can thrive, no less than anyone else. But I would ask that just because you see people abusing and hiding behind FDR to justify their failures, that you also realize that some of us use FDR as a barrier against those who thought Herbert Hoover was fine, because many of those folks also think Jefferson Davis would make a fine president.