Trump’s history of bigotry and racism
Nicholas Kristof sums it up:
Yet even if Donald Trump inherited his firm’s discriminatory policies, he allied himself decisively in the 1970s housing battle against the civil rights movement.
Another revealing moment came in 1989, when New York City was convulsed by the “Central Park jogger” case, a rape and beating of a young white woman. Five black and Latino teenagers were arrested.
Trump stepped in, denounced Mayor Ed Koch’s 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.
As Trump moved into casinos, discrimination followed. In the 1980s, according to a former Trump casino worker, Kip Brown, who was quoted by The New Yorker: “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. … They put us all in the back.”
In 1991, a book by John O’Donnell, who had been president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump as criticizing a black accountant and saying: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. Itreally is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” O’Donnell wrote that for months afterward, Trump pressed him to fire the black accountant, until the man resigned of his own accord.
Trump eventually denied making those comments. But in 1997 in a Playboy interview, he conceded “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
The recent record may be more familiar: Trump’s suggestions that President Obama was born in Kenya; his insinuations that Obama was admitted to Ivy League schools only because of affirmative action; his denunciations of Mexican immigrants as, “in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists”; his calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States; his dismissal of an American-born judge of Mexican ancestry as a Mexican who cannot fairly hear his case; his reluctance to distance himself from the Ku Klux Klan in a television interview; his retweet of a graphic suggesting that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by blacks (the actual figure is about 15 percent); and so on.
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robert July 24th, 2016 at 14:41
Who did trump want to count his money ?
Mensa Member July 24th, 2016 at 16:54
Hint, hint : the same people Ted Cruz and Al Dofflerson accuse of having “New York Values.”
arc99 July 24th, 2016 at 14:49
I just came across this, courtesy of talkingpointsmemo
The satirical site The Onion published an article shortly after election day in November 2012.
In retrospect, maybe they should switch from satire to predicting the future.
http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of–30284
After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016
……….
Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.
Howard Pearce @HAPlibertarian July 24th, 2016 at 14:53
We should remember that bigotry and racism are beliefs and are protected by freedom of belief.
Violating someone’s right to freedom of associations is an actual civil rights violation.
I can TOLERATE people’s beliefs and their right to live by their life by those beliefs. BUT NOT people violating other’s civil rights.
arc99 July 24th, 2016 at 15:00
Dispense with the straw man argument.
No one is claiming that bigotry or racism is not protected by the first amendment.
The point is that the same Constitution which includes the first amendment also includes the 14th amendment and Article 6 which prohibit bigotry and racism from being legislated into law.
Bigots can hang out with each other wearing their white sheets and swastikas to their heart’s content. When they try to take their backyard barbecue rhetoric and attempt to make it law, that is the problem.
Howard Pearce @HAPlibertarian July 24th, 2016 at 15:15
So you don’t believe if freedom of speech ? Or only free for those beliefs you approve of ?
The state may not discriminate NOT BECAUSE discrimination is inherently wrong but BECAUSE it violates their obligation to enforce “equality before the law” which is not possible if they discriminate.
You and I have no such obligation and we also have the right to freedom of choice and of association which covers our right to discrimnate against anyone we please.
If you don’t support either of those 2 rights, please tell us.
arc99 July 24th, 2016 at 15:27
“”So you don’t believe if freedom of speech ? Or only free for those beliefs you approve of ?””
That is not what I said nor is it what I believe.
Please stop lying about what I write. When you have a question based on what I actually said, let me know..
Howard Pearce @HAPlibertarian July 24th, 2016 at 15:41
I deleted that. I agree it was an over-statement on my part.
arc99 July 24th, 2016 at 15:43
thank you.
bpollen July 24th, 2016 at 18:00
THAT is your stock in trade. You can’t deal with any discussion honestly. You consistently misrepresent what people say. That is what is known, in reality land, as “lying.”
Mensa Member July 24th, 2016 at 16:52
>> Violating someone’s right to freedom of associations is an actual civil rights violation
Public accommodation laws don’t stop people from freely associating.
Who told you that?
Howard Pearce @HAPlibertarian July 24th, 2016 at 17:32
They do – but not because freedom of association is wrong or invalid; but rather just like having a guest in your house, the guest is not free to associate with whom he/she pleases – (you) the owner has final say..
In any situation you probably cannot make use of your full rights except on your own property or on property where one is allowed.
Public Property is a problem as it is supposedly owned by the people but is effectively controlled by the state. All public property comes with rules – that’s the nature of creating and maintaining public property for a specific purpose.
Within the rules though we are free to associate to have protests, etc even though we may be required to notify or get permission from the authorities for that too – depending on the situation. The restricted protest areas at the conventions is an example.
But yes, to make full use of your rights you must also be on or in control of the property where you have the right to do so – public property is a “grey” area, I admit.
Obewon July 24th, 2016 at 15:00
Klansman Trump’s dad Fred was busted in a KKK brawl for beating up Police. The Klan Atty freed tiny hands father.
OldLefty July 24th, 2016 at 15:32
Way back in 1950, Woody Guthrie wrote;
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
Beach Haven ain’t my home!
I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain!
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!
Woody Guthrie died in 1967, and in the 1970s, the Justice Department sued the Trumps, accusing them of discriminating against blacks. (A settlement was eventually reached; at the time, Trump Management noted the agreement did not constitute an admission of guilt.)
mistlesuede July 24th, 2016 at 23:49
Thanks for this info.
Howard Pearce @HAPlibertarian July 24th, 2016 at 21:34
Obama supports Trump
LOL
http://nypost.com/2016/07/24/why-obamas-half-brother-says-hell-be-voting-for-donald-trump/
whatthe46 July 25th, 2016 at 14:02
… we know you and your mammy does
Gary Parillo July 25th, 2016 at 13:52
Ignorant statements,but we need to go easy on donny,its not his fault,ignorance and bigotry is a trait in super wealthy old white guys.Its not anything they can control.All my black and brown brothers qnd sisters out there,I would ask you to look at this mans constant record of racist statements.Do you want a president that feels the way he does about people of color? Vote Hillary!
whatthe46 July 25th, 2016 at 14:01
he chose to be a racist.