Love it when AOC pushes Wingnuts' buttons; not so much mine about FDR

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39. The Racial Inequities in the New Deal were not totally the Fault of the President

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The president may propose a law, but the final language is the result of the political maneuvering in congress. The implementation of the law through regulations is the responsibility of the cabinet secretaries. The president cannot review thousands of pages of proposed regulations and still do his job.

Not all racial inequalities were necessarily the result of racism. Some sectors of the economy may have been excluded from New Deal legislation because of administrative practicalities. It would be extremely difficult to enforce the collection of Social Security taxes or workplace regulations on people who were self employed or employed by other individuals, such as agriculture and domestics. This was an era of small family farms and a government that operated without computers, or even automation.