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In reply to the discussion: 9 Ways FDR's 'New Deal' Purposely Excluded Blacks [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)To the best of my knowledge, Bernie was ok with the idea. It was wrong that FDR handled race as he did, and no one today defends that part of FDR's record.
(Although, to be accurate, it wasn't an unwillingness to say POC and women were included in the Thirties...it was specific language at that point that POC and women were banned....this was horrible, and it shouldn't have happened.)
Wha4t I'm saying is that you and I aren't actually in disagreement here. I stand with you. Pretty sure most Sanders people would have if this had just been said in this way in the primaries. Mainly what was being said then was that Bernie didn't care about racism and that he thought nothing BUT economic justice mattered...which was never true. Simply never true.
And I'm pretty sure any program for economic justice, in the post-1964 era, will include specific inclusion language form women, POC, also LGBTQ people. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would make it impossible NOT to have such language, as far as I know. Or to have inclusion in actual fact.