As noted in Walton, et. al., name the scholar who said this about race and economics during the New Deal era: There is an economic system, as well as a race problem in America and that when a Negro is unemployed, it is not just because he is a Negro, but more seriously because of the defective operation of the economy under which we live--an economy that finds it impossible to provide an adequate number of jobs and economic security for the population. Frederick Douglass Ralph Bunche Booker T. Washington