It would’ve been more accurate for me to say that it continued institutional racism, and denied black people from benefiting equally from the New Deal. It led to further economic disparities, and Democrats overall should’ve used the opportunity to chip away at institutional racism.
I am pretty sure racism was institutionalized prior to New Deal…
Red Lining itself was definitely established well before the New Deal, and the practice had spread across the US by the end of the 1920s
People don’t remember how awful Wilson was
It would’ve been more accurate for me to say that it continued institutional racism, and denied black people from benefiting equally from the New Deal. It led to further economic disparities, and Democrats overall should’ve used the opportunity to chip away at institutional racism.