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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)That said, for his time, and IN his time, he was FAR better than most. He was a man for his time (and there was no place for a woman leader in USA at that time, it should be noted).
But trying to drag his corpse into the 21st Century and make assumptions about how he "might" see things is frankly, silly. He was a product of his environment, with all of the biases that attend. I doubt he'd be cheering on the Equality movement, for example. And he might not be terribly enthused with the concept of what was quaintly called "integration" either.
Anyone living in what was regarded as true poverty in the 1930s, if transported to crappy, rundown project homes in this century without decent heat, surviving on food stamps and bottle deposits, would, for a brief moment until they were able to make a comparison with their neighbors, consider themselves wealthy.
Where you stand always depends on where you sit.