Attending services at a black church does not wash away your racist past (cross-posted from GD)

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[font size="4"]Housing[/font]

Trump made a fortune before his career as a reality TV star predominately in the world of real estate, where he took the reins of his father's burgeoning housing empire in the early 1970s and expanded it to become the global juggernaut it purportedly is today. But in 1973, he was introduced on the national stage for less auspicious reasons: his battles with the U.S. Justice Department over charges of violating the Fair Housing Act. The Trumps were accused of systematically discriminating against black tenants seeking rentals in their buildings, even using a code letter "C" to represent "colored" applicants.







[font size="4"]Crime [/font]

In 1989, he infamously took out four full-page ads in local New York City newspapers calling for the restoration of the death penalty in the state, particularly so it could be enforced on the so-called Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens accused of beating and raping a white female woman who had been jogging in the city's iconic park that April.

Years later, when the real perpetrator confessed, and the Central Park Five were exonerated (it was determined that their initial confessions were coerced), Trump refused to back down. When the city of New York agreed in 2014 to pay the young men $41 million in damages for spending years in prisons for a crime they didn't commit, Trump called it the "heist of the century" and a "disgrace" in an unrepentant op-ed for the New York Daily News.







[font size="4"]Birtherism[/font]





[font size="4"]Racist Language[/font]









[font size="4"]Retweeting White Supremacists[/font]





[font size="4"]Hiring A White Nationalist As Your Campaign CEO[/font]




http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-s-history-undermines-new-outreach-black-voters-n635821

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1. I grew up in NY, we knew what an asshole he was

from the get-go.

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3. New Yorkers know but much of the nation doesn't ... and the MSM are not doing their job

informing the American people of his racist past

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4. The media are helping to white wash his past

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6. if they could just take a time-out from their obsession with Hillary's Emails

imagine if they were to go after Trump with the same tenacity they go after Hillary

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2. The Media Are Doing an Abysmal Job of Covering Donald Trump’s Racism

By Joan Walsh
August 30, 2106

Hillary Clinton’s speech on the racial bigotry and white grievance that pollutes Donald Trump’s campaign should turn out to be the most consequential address of the campaign, even of the decade. We have to go back to Barack Obama’s 2008 Philadelphia speech to find such honesty about race and racism and, in Clinton’s case, about the way one campaign in particular has used it to divide the country in the last year.

I confess, I had some worries about the speech. I didn’t want her to get down in the filth of what’s called the “alt-right,” a sewer-level playground for white supremacists, anti-Semites, and racists. I wasn’t sure how deftly she could link their nihilism and nationalism to Trump. She did it very well, grounding her speech in Trump’s own words and Trump’s own history. She derided his current “appeal” to African Americans for the way it plays on right-wing stereotypes of black people and black neighborhoods as ravaged by crime, disease, poverty, and ignorance. “He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field. The vibrancy of black-owned businesses…. Or the strength of the black church.… He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive.”

She tied the ongoing struggles of black Americans to the pervasiveness of discrimination—including discrimination perpetrated by Trump himself, going back to his having to settle claims of racial bias against black tenants in his housing developments in the 1970s and ’80s. Clinton let details tell the story. “Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’—’C’ for ‘colored’—and then rejected,” she said, with a quiet, building disdain.

Walking the crowd through Trump’s long personal history of bigoted appeals, she began with his claim that President Obama wasn’t born here, “part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black president,” she told the crowd. “He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. And he accused the Mexican government of actively sending them across the border. None of that is true.” She ticked off the racism of saying Judge Gonzalo Curiel can’t do his job because “he’s Mexican,” which even House Speaker Paul Ryan, she said, called “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” She reminded us of Trump’s penchant for retweeting white supremacists and anti-Semites, and his claim that he didn’t know anything about David Duke and his career as a white supremacist. In fact, he’d denounced Duke as a white supremacist back in 2000 when the former KKK grand wizard joined the Reform Party.

read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-media-is-doing-an-abysmal-job-in-covering-donald-trumps-racism/

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5. The Trump surrogate response to this is: "Hillary is racist too"

And as evidence they will cite the "super predator" remark.

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9. classic projection ...

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10. Projection and deflection

Trump does projection, the surrogates do deflection.

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13. I would put surrogate Racist Rudy in the projection category

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7. Yep. A little thought (in Republicans, it's VERY little due to lack of brain).

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11. great meme!

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8. CNN's casting Trump as the second coming of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just where is that unicorn of "liberal media" again?
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"I believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time," said Trump, before he concluded by citing 1 John 4:12.

"No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us," Trump said, adding, "That's so true."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/03/politics/donald-trump-black-voters-detroit/index.html

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12. pastor on CNN shows how it's done ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028143683 (posted by malaise)

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14. Trump won't change

He has been a racist bigot for decades now. Even today, he has yet to apologize to Obama for his BS regarding the birth certificate issue.

That is why he will be destroyed in the GE, with so few minorities actually supporting him.

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15. of course he won't change

But the MSM should be calling him out on this farce of trying to appeal to people he has spent his life discriminating against.

Everyone in America knows about Hillary's Emails. Few know about Trump calling for the execution of five innocent black men in 1989, or his refusing to rent to African-Americans in the 1970s, and the many racist remarks he's made throughout his life.

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16. Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2016, explained

by German Lopez on August 26, 2016

1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.

1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump's Castle, accused another of Trump's businesses of discrimination. "When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor," Brown said. "It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back."

1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the "Central Park Five" — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" The teens’ convictions were later vacated, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump argued that because they were probably, according to him, involved in other criminal activity that night, they were treated too well.

1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.

read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racism-history