Worth posting this again. As you read some of the responses, make an association with what is being said and what open white propagandists are saying. Ask yourself why it seems to be same.
Since we’re going there, it’s worth bringing this back then.
Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots: From His Father’s Klan Membership to the Klan Supporting His Presidency
Lynn Burnett
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Oct 2, 2020
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See also this resource collection, on Trump’s long history of White Supremacy.
In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was one of
seven men arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally that turned violent. Although some people have speculated that Fred Trump could have been an innocent bystander swept up in a chaotic moment, articles from the time make it clear that the seven men arrested were wearing Klan robes. Fred held onto his White supremacist ideology as the years moved on: as a housing developer, he
enforced strict segregation. One of his tenants was the folk music icon Woody Guthrie, who
wrote a song titled “Old Man Trump”:
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project.
Fred Trump passed his beliefs, and his business, on to his son Donald. In 1973, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit
accusing the Trump Organizationof racial discrimination. Donald Trump refused to admit any wrongdoing but eventually settled the case, promising to open his apartments to people of color. However, in 1978 the Department of Justice again charged the Trump organization with discrimination. According to investigations, Trump’s rental applications were secretly marked with the applicant’s race, and doormen were coached to discourage Black people from renting. In 1983, the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal investigated some of Trump’s properties and found they were 95 percent White.
When Trump got into the casino business in the 1980s, the managers would
order Black workers into the back rooms when Trump visited so he wouldn’t have to see them. Trump reportedly couldn’t stand having Black accountants because, quote: “laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” On the other hand, Trump stated that Jews were good at counting money. In 1992 The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino
had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black (and female) dealers off of tables to accommodate a big-time (and mob connected) gambler’s prejudices. In order to prevent competition from Native American casinos, Trump
ran an ad campaign portraying the Mohawk peoples as drug addicted criminals.
During the 1989
Central Park 5 case, Trump called for the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers (aged 14 to 16) who were falsely accused of rape. Trump was so invested in their death that he purchased full-page ads in the New York Times urging New York to reinstate the death penalty. The Central Park 5 suffered horribly in prison, but DNA tests combined with the confession of a known murderer and rapist later proved their innocence. However Donald Trump, even as President, has not only refused to apologize, but even to admit their innocence. When asked about this in 2019 he stated:
“You have people on both sides of that.”