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In reply to the discussion: The good that came out of FDR does not out weigh the bad [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)very strongly supported FDR through all four of his presidencies. They're not here to swat these insults down and to point out that the New Deal and what came after was their achievement and their legacy to America every bit as much as it is anyone else's.
They knew what they were doing, and they knew the New Deal could not have happened without them. They knew their efforts had nothing to do with interning the Japanese.
They understood that the rabidly bigoted, conservative "Southern Democrat" bloc did. And they understood its role in limiting the benefits they and other progressives were able to win for themselves. But they absolutely also knew their victories were far greater than these insidious, lying, right-wing themes sprouting up everywhere claim.
Because they were the first generation to live them. They and the world didn't just see black men trained and doing well in many tens of thousands of well paid New Deal positions but even promoted to authority over white men.
And that was just the beginning.