The New Deal and Black Ghettoization









  1. rxc:

    Another progressive initiative that didn't quite produce the results intended. Unless, of course, the intent was to generate ghettos, which was clearly NOT what Saint Franklin intended...

    I wonder how long this will be up at the PBS site before someone realizes what it says about the government programs that PBS normally idolizes, and makes it disappear. After all, this is a site for the children...

  2. Mark:

    What I find ironic is the Democrats, the party of the non-racists!, cling to the outdated laws of the early 20th century that were racially motivated like Bacon-Davis and the Wagner Act. The truth is, discrimination and racism CANNOT exist without governmnet intervention.
    If you are a racist and would only hire X types of people, you would not be able to compete with a competitior if they hired both X and Y types of people because they could hire the same qualfied Y's cheaper becaus ethe first competitor resisted.
    So, what to do if you are a racist society and want to keep it that way? You go to the governemnt and get them to pass "prevailing wage laws" and other such legislation that locks in the wage rates and prohibits competiton from lower wage producers.
    That we still have such laws in the 21st century is sad.

  3. Herman:

    Also the Davis–Bacon Act of 1931

  4. Captain:

    Could you tell me what the 'series' is you are watching?

    I recall a series on the New Deal many years ago but can't find anything on he site.

  5. sean2829:

    Mark Faber of the Gloom and Doom report had a similar observation about the government's messing with real estate in the last 15 years. He points out that minorities and the poor probably got worst loans as the housing bubble came to a crescendo and were the most likely to be foreclosed. Now that the government has insisted that lending hold to stricter guidelines, people at the low end of the economic scale are locked out of the mortgage market. The houses they used to own are now being scooped up by wealthy investors and rented back to these same low income people. For the investors, money is so cheap that it's easy to make a profit on today's renters.

  6. SamWah:

    Wowwwwwwww. PBS itsownself told the truth about Dems and Government colluding to do this to blacks.

  7. Vic Kelley:

    They were neighborhoods before coloreds moved in. They became ghettoes when coloreds moved in. I don't support what the government did. I hate it. But don't blame government for the conduct of those colored residents.