Roosevelt's Impact On American Society
the same concept for the Netherlands, Belgium or Australia. But how does one get elevated in the US society? By getting a so-called "white" job: becoming a physician, a PhD, a lawyer...etc. A local inhabitant of Southwest Chicago or South central LA is condemned to the same social status he was born with, unless he defies the odds, goes to college and somehow becomes "white". The point of this paper is to prove that our society is still very much based on racist principles (versus class-based principles in European countries) but in a more dangerous manner than fifty years ago. Indeed, before the civil rights movement, it was clear that interracial relations could not occur, racism and segregation were encouraged in all aspects of society:
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Many black families, both in rural and urban areas, were already living under the line of poverty and greatly suffered from this economic catastrophe. Contrary to common belief, Roosevelt did not directly save the economy nor did the "New Deal" revitalize the country from this depression, World War II did. This war was truly worldwide and revealed how discriminative American society was. Even though the military reopened its doors for African-Americans in 1932 policies were still discriminatory. Soldiers training in the South suffered violent attacks from white communities and were gradually being separated from "the rest"; moreover, black soldiers were only allowed to serve in the messman's branch of the US Navy (The Messman Chronicles, R.Miller, 2004). No black officer was found in a leading role and black soldiers, even within the micro-society of the military were suffering from racism. The events got so serious that Philip Randolph, at the head of the American Labor Movement, planned to march in Washington alongside millions of black citizens to express their frustration at these blatant acts of discrimination. This pressured the president to issue an executive order emphasizing equality between all soldiers of the military. However, everyone knew that this was just politics, the problem was still very much alive, and was backed by the public as Scientific Racism was "proving" that some races were biologically inferior to others (Huffington Post, Eliza Sankar, June
Many black families, both in rural and urban areas, were already living under the line of poverty and greatly suffered from this economic catastrophe. Contrary to common belief, Roosevelt did not directly save the economy nor did the "New Deal" revitalize the country from this depression, World War II did. This war was truly worldwide and revealed how discriminative American society was. Even though the military reopened its doors for African-Americans in 1932 policies were still discriminatory. Soldiers training in the South suffered violent attacks from white communities and were gradually being separated from "the rest"; moreover, black soldiers were only allowed to serve in the messman's branch of the US Navy (The Messman Chronicles, R.Miller, 2004). No black officer was found in a leading role and black soldiers, even within the micro-society of the military were suffering from racism. The events got so serious that Philip Randolph, at the head of the American Labor Movement, planned to march in Washington alongside millions of black citizens to express their frustration at these blatant acts of discrimination. This pressured the president to issue an executive order emphasizing equality between all soldiers of the military. However, everyone knew that this was just politics, the problem was still very much alive, and was backed by the public as Scientific Racism was "proving" that some races were biologically inferior to others (Huffington Post, Eliza Sankar, June