Spartacus, this question has been a deep one. Why did the Allies, especially America, did not do anything to combat racism in their armies?

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Days like this, wish we had a time machine.

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Definitely farther left.

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That’s what I like about him, although he could’ve done a lot more. Both from a health issue (yk cuz he didn’t live to see yk) and government side. But we see why, so I understand that part now

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I don’t. Though if I did have a time machine, I would go back to the late '80s :stuck_out_tongue:

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Probably '42 and stop Roosevelt from running again to save his strength. Then go at it again when he’s fully strengthened

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The media did a good job covering for his failing health.

Speaking of political matters, accusations of racial prejudice were even in 1940 used for political purposes:

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Frankly I don’t. I see him as an authoritarian.

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No wonder why FDR won the third term in a huge landslide

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It depends on who sees his terms. He helped a lot with the New Deal (albeit it didn’t help everyone), managed to bounce back from the depression, could’ve done more if Japan didn’t attack us, but history only know

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That was a false accusation on their part. Yes, Willkie’s hometown was a sundown town of sorts (not really), but Willkie himself wasn’t prejudiced.

And FDR won because of the war and Willkie’s policy similarities to FDR’s.

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The 1946 Depression called.

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I never seen him as racist (the candidate). But I felt he wasn’t really a strong president for WW2

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He did do much, just not in the way our Founding Fathers would be proud of, at least in terms of governing the nation.

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Happens after a big war, so that’s a pass

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Them old boys wouldn’t approve of how blacks was freed, so I won’t be mad at FDR

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Not just the war, the New Deal programs had to be rolled back to allow the economy to bounce back.

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So what if the Founding Fathers had those beliefs? Doesn’t change the fact that their preferred way to govern doesn’t match with FDR. No matter the race, you can’t deny that.

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This why I was kinda also against Truman being VP, but I still wish he made those bills into deep laws. But we still have the issue of race. And Britain and France during WW2

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I mean true. Then again, they didn’t know anything about running a government that’ll change economy and what not too. I’m loving this thread

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Wallace was worse as VP. A useful idiot for the Soviets, he was.

Also, the 1946 midterms gave the Republicans Congressional control.