2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIs Donald Trump a Racist?
HAS the party of Lincoln just nominated a racist to be president? We shouldnt toss around such accusations lightly, so Ive looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trumps career to see what the record says.
One early red flag arose in 1973, when President Richard Nixons Justice Department not exactly the radicals of the day sued Trump and his father, Fred Trump, for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals.
Ive waded through 1,021 pages of documents from that legal battle, and they are devastating. Donald Trump was then president of the family real estate firm, and the government amassed overwhelming evidence that the company had a policy of discriminating against blacks, including those serving in the military.
To prove the discrimination, blacks were repeatedly dispatched as testers to Trump apartment buildings to inquire about vacancies, and white testers were sent soon after. Repeatedly, the black person was told that nothing was available, while the white tester was shown apartments for immediate rental.
A former building superintendent working for the Trumps explained that he was told to code any application by a black person with the letter C, for colored, apparently so the office would know to reject it. A Trump rental agent said the Trumps wanted to rent only to Jews and executives, and discouraged renting to blacks.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-a-racist.html?_r=0&referer=
SheriffBob
(552 posts)It's congenital.
TNNurse
(6,911 posts)Onyrleft
(344 posts)That congenitals are smaller than libgenitals.
nightscanner59
(802 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Does Howdy Doodie have wooden balls?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)fart when you squeeze it?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)leave orange residue on everything it touches?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Trump wanted to be a horse jockey 'til he found out it wasn't something they wear.
Onyrleft
(344 posts)Seriously, it works.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)But I was actually referring to Trump.
Onyrleft
(344 posts)For some reason I just had an odd moment of seriousness there.
meow2u3
(24,745 posts)Does a dog bark?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,705 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)It should scare the pants off of anyone that the Republican nominee is a white supremacist conman who appears to be bought and controlled by Putin.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)donald trump hates blacks, mexicans, muslims, any brown person and women. He hates and disparages veterans and their service to this country. He does the last because he never served as he is deep down, a coward and a charlatan
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)in Trump's mind, he wasn't being racist, it was just business. Most racists don't see themselves as racist. They have a multitude of alternative reasons for their behavior, while putting forth their one minority "friend" as proof that they most certainly cannot be racist. "Where's my African America? Stand up."
SheriffBob
(552 posts)make you puke?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Trump stepped in, denounced Mayor Ed Kochs call for peace and bought full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty. The five teenagers spent years in prison before being exonerated. In retrospect, they suffered a modern version of a lynching, and Trump played a part in whipping up the crowds.
This is what he does and who he is.
sarae
(3,284 posts)There are many others, but here's another one:
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/08/trump-casinos-black-employees
a black Trump casino employee's account:
Brown also used to work in the casinos, at the Showboat, bussing tables, and at Trumps Castle, stripping and waxing floors. "When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor," he said. "It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back."
mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)Goddam right he is!
mark67
(196 posts)...or shameless, opportunistic, elitist, narcissistic, morally bankrupt conman.
Within historical context, after the attack in Central Park a lot of people were screaming for blood. But Trump's obsession with Obama's birth certificate? Yeah, maybe a racist.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)lark
(23,003 posts)His speeches about Mexicans, BLM, and Muslims prove that he wants to put hate into law and use hate to over-ride established law,
Present day Hitler is what he is and the most dangerous man to ever make it this far. It's chilling what this says about the level of ignorance and hate in this country.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)I bet he has a white hood and gown somewhere in his closet. We know his dad was arrested during a klan rally.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)They are just clinging to that thread for deception form their true intentions.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Dworkin
(164 posts)Americas racist president
Hi,
Three words.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-a-racist.html?_r=0
It is almost unimaginable that anyone would utter these words in modern times. Yet, action and reaction are always with us, and a backlash to the presence of Barack Obama could not be ruled out.
What is there to say?
D.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)I care that he ACTS like a racist, and is certainly using racist themes and memes in his campaign.
Onyrleft
(344 posts)But maybe he just figured out Reagan voters. Modern conservatism isn't an ideology it's a defense mechanism. Trump says "You're not bad for being afraid of "those people". "Being too big a baby to pay for a USA that works (Waaaahhh my taxes are too high) actually makes you a patriot". "Forcing rape victims to carry their attackers babies against their will then calling yourself a Christian isn't morally diseased at all". "Using Reagan's racist welfare queen lie to justify taking food away from children doesn't make you a Satanic scumbag" So when cons hear this basic rhetoric they say to themselves "Hey I'm actually a good American not some awful(scapegoat du jour)" "he really gets me" Then when Trump says "Now I'm gonna whip out my Cheeto and trickle down on you peasants" the cons say "Ronnie?"
The Green Manalishi
(1,054 posts)harrose
(380 posts)eom
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)world wide wally
(21,719 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,688 posts)But he's also bff's with Putin.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)And so are his stupid fucking supporters.
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)happyslug
(14,779 posts)Trump was a registered Democrat till 2009. His Father appears to have always been a Registered Democrat. Thus this "Attack" is about the time period when both were alive and Democrats. Under DU rules you can NOT attack Democrats on DU, thus is this attack permitted under DU rules?
Please note, Nixon was going after anyone who supported the Democratic Party and the Trumps did that in New York City. Thus while it is with his Character to discriminate against African Americans when it came to housing, I suspect Nixon went after them more do who they were donating to as oppose to their treatment of African Americans.
Remember it is NOT against the law to be a Racist, it is against the law to discriminate because of race. Thus it was breaking the law to move all of the African American Employees to the rear when Trump visited his Casino, but that Trump did not want to see any African Americans is NOT illegal (and management of the Casino seems to have tried to work around those two sets of laws by moving the African Americans away from Areas where Trump was to go).
Just a comment to put Trump's racism is prospective. He appears to have been in compliance with discrimination laws since 1981, when his Brother Fred took over the business from his father in the 1970s or 1980s. Donald's Father lived till 1999 but has Alzheimer since at least 1993 and appears to have nothing to do with his business after the death of his eldest son in 1991.
Donald, Fred Trump's second son, ran his own business for Fred Trump had been investigated in the 1950s for fraud involving housing projects in New York City. Fred Trump did nothing illegal, but he had set up financing deals that made him millions at tax payer's expense. Thus Donald's young brother, Robert Trump, ran Fred's business starting in the 1980s, Donald continue to run his own business with Fred as his silent partner from that time period till Fred's Death in 1999.
More on Fred Trump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
More on Donald Trump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Donald's sister is a Senior Judge on the Federal Third Circuit court of Appeals, appointed by Bill Clinton. She claims to be a Republican but when nominated to the New Jersey Federal Court in 1982 by Ronald Reagan, both New Jersey Senators were Democrats (and under Senate Rules, Federal Judges are picked by that state's Senators, if the President picks anyone else, the Senate never confirms them, that has been the rule since the first Congress). The President has a little more leeway when it comes to Courts of Appeal but not much, the Senators of the states under that court of appeals tend to have veto power. Thus she may be a Republican for Reagan was a Republican and he wanted to appoint a Republican to be a Federal Judge, but Senate rules said it was the SENATORS of NEW JERSEY that picks the Federal Judges at the State level so they picked a Republican they liked. i.e. a Republican in name only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry
Trump's uncle has an interesting biography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump
Orsino
(37,428 posts)It's like being a white nationalist, but without all the boring meetings.
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)He's a complete Otherist.
LW1977
(1,227 posts)To me that is really fucking racist! #TruckFump
barbtries
(28,702 posts)of course he is.