Archive for March 2009

The Real Deal on The New Deal

March 9, 2009 by Michael Dawson

March 9, 2009 — If anyone should be skeptical of New Deal policies, it should be black folks, not Republicans.

Posted at The Root.

It is often forgotten that, for all of its benefits, the New Deal reinforced structural black economic disadvantage in many ways. It is certainly true that the Work Projects Administration (WPA) put many blacks to work, and many blacks also benefited from the relief programs.

Class War!

March 7, 2009 by Michael Dawson

March 2, 2009 — The right’s uncivil war against Obama. Will it succeed?

Posted at The Root.

Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, is horrified that President Obama has become the “world’s best salesman of socialism.” He grimly argues that conservatives will have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.” And if that is not alarming enough, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has shrilly declared that the president’s policies would be loved by “Lenin and Stalin.”