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

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134. Executive Order 8802

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_8802

Most historians agree that it was one of the biggest steps in civil rights in a generation and helped to lay the groundwork for parts of the Civil Rights Act of 64.

It's natural to look back on history through our modern lens and judge actions taken or not taken at key moments in our history. My cynical side would look at the passage of EO 8802 and think, "Well of course FDR did that, abled bodied workers were needed for the war effort at that time." Realistically, that was a huge moment in history.

There's plenty to judge Roosevelt on in hindsight from refusing Jewish refugees to the Japanese internment camps.

For all of his flaws, FDR was a man of his time and what we widely view as our modern America was greatly shaped by him, Eleanor, Truman, JFK and LBJ. To hear people issue RW criticisms of the New Deal in this forum is discouraging, not because criticism of the New Deal isn't warranted, it surely is, but that criticism is frequently used to further a divide and to insult. Should FDR had made more moves to improve minority and women's rights? Absolutely! But I doubt those measures would have ever been passed during that time.

It took the aftermath of WWII to fully integrated the military. That move led directly to further advancements in Civil Rights. The assassination of JFK carried a huge weight on LBJ to push for the 64 Civil Rights Act in his memory. Each step on the journey to social justice in this country has been slow and with great cost, perhaps it's the nature of real change.

In that perspective, I think one can look back and acknowledge the past and accept the good and reasonable call out the bad. In many ways, we find ourselves in similar straights today. "The ACA wasn't good enough, give us single payer", "The banks and corporations are too powerful, let's break them up and force them to pay their fair share." And on and on. We must be careful to not push any agenda that would put at risk the social advancements or economic structures that we have....because, especially social justice advancements took so long with such incredible sacrifice, most people aren't willing to push for radical ideas that might put those advancements at risk! Some things do happen relatively quickly, take for example the right for gay couples to marry, but that is a unique example in this country's history. At this present moment, we are burdened with economic injustice and attacks on social justice. The two are the wings of the bird of freedom, there cannot be one without the other. But the work that will be required to undo the harm that conservatives have inflicted upon both fronts will take years, perhaps decades to unravel. We can and must fight for social and economic justice, dividing the two only serves to divide ourselves. How we achieve that balance is up for debate, the importance of both is not and should not!