Them old boys wouldn’t approve of how blacks was freed, so I won’t be mad at FDR
Not just the war, the New Deal programs had to be rolled back to allow the economy to bounce back.
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.
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
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
Wallace was worse as VP. A useful idiot for the Soviets, he was.
Also, the 1946 midterms gave the Republicans Congressional control.
They did. Have you read what the Founding Fathers themselves had to say on running a government?
You have asked a question that is very difficult to answer because even today it still happens and nobody has the answer for it.
However back to the question at hand if you look at it from the perspective of the time this was normal behaviour whether you agree with it or not and every country of the time had racism of some sort. Every country dealt with it differently as well.
As to the US many people looked at blacks as second class citizens and felt that they were incapable of being effective fighters and were treated like they were inferior and slow. This is shown throughout the war and while many blacks distinguished themselves in combat as individuals or as units and often were treated as equals by comrades in arms under fire back home and in the US high command they were still second class citizens often being relegated to the back pages of newspapers and were the last to be read in military dispatches.
Sure to us it is wrong and derogatory but for the time era it was normal and even many blacks in uniform took it as such it wasn’t until after the war was over that things started to change and there were many reasons for that too numerous to list here.
This is a very and I do mean very expansive subject that really can’t be answered satisfactorily because there is so much to say.
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Anything worse than a huge war is Republicans in charge
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Not really. You are talking to one 
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Yeah, I did. A lot. Government and history does that
Also, please don’t say the horrors of war are preferable to seeing your political opponents in charge. That’s not right.
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And you realize how that doesn’t match with what FDR did?
Idk Mitch McConnell did a bad number. And I’m a socialist, democratic one. Albeit, I’m different when it comes to that.
But to FDR, why didn’t he call out France and Britain?
Also, that was a poor choice of words. I’m truly sorry
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Yeah. But I mean when have we ever listened to what the founding fathers have said?
All the time. You just don’t see it because the media and the left in general are rather happy to ignore them because they’re “problematic”. Whatever their beliefs on race, their political ideas are still influential.
Don’t bring modern politics here, save that for FDR
Republicans didn’t do much better. But I rather not go into that because parties in general have bad and good.
But like I was asking too, why didn’t FDR call out his allies racism?
Wouldn’t want to get into heated arguments with your allies, eh? There was a general fear of the potential for the Nazis exploiting important disagreements between the Allies (at least the Western Allies). There’s an article I transcribed that doesn’t talk about race, but is about South American trade, wherein the author pointed this fear out.
I mean, I would’ve doubt Hitler would’ve paid attention to disagreement in '42 with how the war is going