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In reply to the discussion: 9 Ways FDR's 'New Deal' Purposely Excluded Blacks [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)one would have to have some serious rose-colored glasses; be a bigot or an idiot; or be utterly lacking in any kind of moral principles to argue that FDR wasn't problematic for a number of reasons and a deeply-flawed human being (The same can be said for that matter of LBJ)...it's very hard to argue that the economic programs of these Presidents...which is all anybody is nostalgic for either of them on the basis of...wouldn't be better for all Americans--black, white, brown, red or yellow (I think that covers everybody)--than the nostalgia some in the black community have for Bill Clinton and Clintonian economics, a president whose economic policies did more to harm minorities (and explicitly blacks more than other minorities) and those in poverty than any Democratic President since the unrepentant, open racism and misogyny of Woodrow Wilson. Bill literally drank the Reaganite Kool-aid about welfare queens, lazy blacks, and the need to "reform" social-welfare programs in order to "encourage" inner-city blacks and other minorities to get off drugs, stop committing crimes, and better themselves. It's hard to hold more anti-black racist economic policies than Bill Clinton did and be a post-Civil-Rights-Era Democratic President.
How the Black community could be nostalgic for Clintonism to the extent that they overwhelmingly supported Hillary during the primary is frankly inexplicable to me from a logical standpoint. Honestly, I don't get it. It makes no sense to me. FDR was terrible for blacks...and Bill Clinton was worse.