RE: The Convoy
October 24, 2018 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2018 at 8:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:the mingling of white with oriental blood on an extensive scale is harmful to our future citizenship.FDR
The man was a racist, an anti-semite, and a white supremacist - all of which is to say..a completely normal product of society for the time and place. The new deal contained explicitly racist and white supremacist provisions and exemptions. The immigration reforms of his admin closely parallel trumpian policies. With full knowledge of the holocaust, fdr maintained ties with hitler and blocked the immigration of jews attempting to escape and intended to "spread them thinly all over the world" at the end. He excluded black olympians from the whitehouse, and interred americans (indefinitely) in contradiction to a report from his admins intelligence which determined that there was no particular reason to suspect deficiencies in japanese american loyalty due to their ethnicity.
All that said, FDR is a progressive icon for what he got right, even those things he got right accidentally or in contradiction to his privately held beliefs.....not what he got wrong, lol.
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