Dr. Lachin Hatemi: Were Blacks
Included in Roosevelt’s New Deal?
By Lachin Hatemi M.D.
Published by www.KultureKritic.com
At the height of the Great
Depression, Franklin Roosevelt took the driver seat of the entire country as
the new president and steered the entire nation toward greater government
control of people’s daily lives and the utilization of immense social programs.
Roosevelt’s “New Deal” brought in innovations such as the Social Security
program, unemployment benefits, and tighter regulation of the entire economy.
But the “New Deal” also was an era of compromises.
Northern liberals found
themselves at the negotiating table with the hardline Southern Democrats, who
embraced big government in exchange for North’s abandonment of demands for
racial equality across the country. Bargaining was inevitable since without the
support of the Southern Democrats, there could be no majority support for the New
Deal.
