On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > but that does not mean that Roosevelt or the progressives wanted those > > exclusions. > > Neither does it mean that they did _not_ want those exclusions. And do we > have a single _private_ document (not meant for public consumption) from > FDR > or any of those "progressives" saying that they regretted depending on the > "south"? What is the evidence for their private intentions? >
This may all be true but beside the point for David Shemano's argument. David claims that the *purpose* of say, the New Deal legislation is to prevent black people from getting jobs. Not merely that the New Deal fails to help out black people by excluding them, but actively and malevolently seeks to hurt them. In fact, David seems to be claiming not merely that this is true of progressive public policies in the past, but even today. If I understand David's argument correctly, he seems to be claiming that someone like Paul Krugman supports an increased minimum wage because he would like to see low wage people kicked out of jobs. That sounds absolutely preposterous to me. -raghu.
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