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In reply to the discussion: Love it when AOC pushes Wingnuts' buttons; not so much mine about FDR [View all]BlueWI
(1,736 posts)about the racial inequities of the New Deal. Several posters offered resources to learn more about this common historical conclusion.
Your earlier post implied that AOC didn't know that the New Deal benefited her and her family. I suggested that she would know better than you or I would to what extent that program has benefited her family in past or present times. For instance, if you're white and got a surburban home loan to build decades of equity in a house your family is still in today, it's all good. If you were a family of color and were denied credit that was made possible by the government you pay taxes to, not so good. If you were a domestic worker or farm worker, like many black and brown people, social security didn't apply to you either in the early years. We live today with an extremely large wealth gap that continues to be detrimental to our civic life and causes a lot of conflict and suffering. The good and the bad are a part of the record.
You can deny this history if you want. Others will call you out for it, as I did, as we all should if we are Democrats with an open eye towards history's lessons.