Where did the idea come from that support for a second New Deal means support for Jim Crow?

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45. New Democrats Different Deal.

When Obama circled the country twice asking for support for jobs and infrastructure bills, people on these boards were still obsessing about Snowden, TARP, Single Payer and any number of petty issues that had been resolved or should have been ignored (Snowden). Now when all of these choices are out of the foreseeable future because of the debacle that was the last election, some want to argue New Deal. The New Deal was rooted in discrimination and racism in its' politics. The New Deal became part of America's original sin. In order for FDR to push his plan forward, he did as our founding fathers did when writing the constitution and discussing slavery, he promised to deliberately keep blacks out of its' successes and progress for votes and party unity. So to call for New Deal politics for a jobs and infrastructure bill and to keep claiming FDR pulled American workers out of poverty is at best tone deaf. To call Bernie Sanders an FDR Democrat is dismissive of black and women workers. Add that to Bernie's insistence that somehow white working and rural men have been neglected by the Democratic party thereby ignoring the natural ascendence of blacks and women within the party and reducing it to identity politics. White men abandoned the party because of civil rights legislation. They were not expelled and no one wanted them to leave. Johnson and Nixon both understood the significance of that split. Nixon developed the "Southern Strategy" which was based on agitating, animating and empowering white racism. Claiming to be a New Deal Democrat sticks in the craw of a lot of Democrats. Democrats are no longer an exclusive white male party that void has been filled. Any jobs bill now has to express New Democrats. No one has to dismiss FDR just don't glorify the New Deal and insist on pushing it in the faces of what is now the Democratic party. New Democrats are most importantly inclusive. I, as a Democrat, greatly admire FDR and the New Deal theoretically, but I am very clear about whom he felt he had to sacrifice for the New Deal's passage. Jobs bills are great and all Democrats and their platforms call for them but there is a reason it is not labeled or compared to FDR's New Deal.