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Except that Roosevelt was for intergreated said conquered peoples.

That's the difference.

Racists believed that they were inherently inferior and would always be.

Roosevelt believed that enviroment decided everything... people should be judged soley by their merits, and that any inferiorites of one race vs another would disapear in a couple generations after being exposed and getting used to the greatness of the US/Europeon culture.

While FDR just outright hated the Japanese, and there are plenty of statements to prove it.