NY Times Sunday: Trump’s long history of bias–‘No vacancies’ for blacks
Click here for reuse options!She seemed like the model tenant. A 33-year-old nurse who was living at the Y.W.C.A. in Harlem, she had come to rent a one-bedroom at the still-unfinished Wilshire Apartments in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. She filled out what the rental agent remembers as a “beautiful application.” She did not even want to look at the unit.
There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black.
Stanley Leibowitz, the rental agent, talked to his boss, Fred C. Trump.
“I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” Mr. Leibowitz, now 88, recalled in an interview…
Over the next decade, as Donald Trump assumed an increasingly prominent role in the business, the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented by activists and organizations that viewed equal housing as the next frontier in the civil rights struggle.
The Justice Department undertook its own investigation and, in 1973, sued Trump Management for discriminating against blacks. Both Fred Trump, the company’s chairman, and Donald Trump, its president, were named as defendants. It was front-page news, and for Donald, amounted to his debut in the public eye.
…an investigation by The New York Times — drawing on decades-old files from the New York City Commission on Human Rights, internal Justice Department records, court documents and interviews with tenants, civil rights activists and prosecutors — uncovered a long history of racial bias at his family’s properties, in New York and beyond.
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21 responses to NY Times Sunday: Trump’s long history of bias–‘No vacancies’ for blacks
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StoneyCurtisll August 27th, 2016 at 14:47
And this mother f-er has the gall to call Hillary Clinton a ‘bigot”?
Who in the hell does he think he is fooling?
Tommie August 27th, 2016 at 15:35
Just his “passionate” followers!
leDaver August 27th, 2016 at 23:51
Unfortunately, he is fooling a very large portion of the electorate, not to mention almost all the republican members of the house and senate.
StoneyCurtisll August 28th, 2016 at 12:32
1/2 of Republicans don’t like him…
He has a s much chance of being President as you or I…:)
StoneyCurtisll August 27th, 2016 at 14:54
Ya know whats really sad….
Stories like this only solidify his embrace of his hard core supporters..
They love the racist aspect of Donald Trump…
The only thing he is lacking in their eyes is a confederate flag and a swastika armband..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mowauY-41uk
Tommie August 27th, 2016 at 15:34
And that stupid little mustache!
Larry Schmitt August 27th, 2016 at 15:14
This is old news. Already been reported by the Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html and the Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/15/doj-trump-s-early-businesses-blocked-blacks.html, along with probably others. So why isn’t every reporter asking him about it? Not that it will make any difference to his drooling supporters.
leDaver August 27th, 2016 at 23:49
The only question anyone anywhere in the press for any organisation is “When will you release your tax returns?” No other question on any topic until he answeres that one.
Tommie August 27th, 2016 at 15:33
I was watching on CNN a couple of dumb Trump supporters who said that these injustices were never proving and why are people bringing up things so far back? You would think they would know about politics! They go as far back as possible on someone they hate!
Gary Parillo August 27th, 2016 at 17:57
It is not what we say that reveals our character and true intent,it is “What we do!”Little Donny says,”I love the blacks,” yet has a long well documented history that shows just the opposite! Love&Hate,strong words thrown around these days flippantly and disingenuous.Why does he hate journalists so deeply? They tend to dig for evidence as to a mans character and life patterns the way an archeoligist digs for the hidden clues to humanities origins.His life record does not match his rhetoric.
Obewon August 27th, 2016 at 17:58
From the NYT link: A former Trump superintendent named Thomas Miranda testified that multiple Trump Management employees had instructed him to attach a separate piece of paper with a big letter “C” on it — for “colored” — to any application filed by a black apartment-seeker.
The Trumps went on the offensive, filing a contempt-of-court charge against one of the prosecutors, accusing her of turning the investigation into a “Gestapo-like interrogation.” The Trumps derided the lawsuit as a pressure tactic to get them to sign a consent decree like the one agreed to by Mr. LeFrak.
The judge dismissed both the countersuit and the contempt-of-court charge. After nearly two years of legal wrangling, the Trumps gave up and signed a consent decree. Book’em Dano!
Budda August 28th, 2016 at 14:28
I’m shocked that it wasn’t big letter “N” on the application!
Suzanne McFly August 27th, 2016 at 18:12
One thing has been proven by donnie more than anything else, he has bought himself his kind of justice, but he won’t be able to buy his way into the White House.
The Original Just Me August 28th, 2016 at 21:03
But he is self financed.——Oh That’s why .
StoneyCurtisll August 28th, 2016 at 11:20
President Trump throughout history…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aWOaG0evNk
William August 28th, 2016 at 18:39
YEP!
The Original Just Me August 28th, 2016 at 21:02
Did he even know Black People existed before the Last Pole ?
William August 28th, 2016 at 22:56
He does now.
The Original Just Me August 29th, 2016 at 00:24
Yup, NOW He knows about them AND He LIKES Them SO much, that He wants their Vote.
Mensa Member August 29th, 2016 at 09:28
More evidence that Trump is a narcissist or maybe even a sociopath.
If racism made him money, he uses it.
How this hurts other people is beyond him.
jybarz August 29th, 2016 at 11:38
What’s new?
Everyone knows he’s a bigoted small fingered racist with anus-shaped mouth, stupid fake looking funny hair and untanned white circle around his eyes
Simply an obnoxious son of a bitch!