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In reply to the discussion: The good that came out of FDR does not out weigh the bad [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I hope that I never come across a pretzel that is as twisted up as you are twisting yourself to justify FDR. In one post you wrote that he took bold PUBLIC action in support of Black people. Now in this post, you are saying that he didn't invite the Black sprinter, the greatest of all time, to the White House because FDR operated in a racist culture. Which is it, did he publicly push for racial equality or did he genuflect to racists and maybe was a racist himself? Don't you think that inviting the guy who won the most gold medals in the 36 Olympics and humiliated Hitler to Hitler's face, would have been an enormous statement in favor of racial equality? But FDR chose not to do that, NOR to meet privately with that great man. Why is that?
BTW, I really don't like pretzels at all (along with biscuits and scones), just could not resist using that analogy.