MM#14 New Deal, Same As The Old Deal

They called it the New Deal.

 

A promise. A lifeline. It was the most ambitious expansion of federal protection for working Americans in the nation's history, and was designed to pull a broken country back from the edge of collapse.

 

But buried in the fine print were some sneaky words that changed everything.

 

In 1935 and 1938, Southern Democrats struck a deal with the Roosevelt Administration. They would support the New Deal, but made sure to carve out the occupations held overwhelmingly by Black Americans.

 

Three laws.

Three trapdoors.

 

In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the New Deal's darkest compromise—how the legislation that saved white America was deliberately engineered to leave Black America behind.

Because sometimes the most effective forms of racism aren't the ones written in fire.

They're the ones written in fine print.

 

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