Is Donald Trump a Racist?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

HAS the party of Lincoln just nominated a racist to be president? We shouldn’t toss around such accusations lightly, so I’ve looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trump’s career to see what the record says.

One early red flag arose in 1973, when President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department — not exactly the radicals of the day — sued Trump and his father, Fred Trump, for systematically discriminating against blacks in housing rentals.

I’ve 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=

[MrScorpio]

1. Yeah, duh!

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/donald-trump-and-the-central-park-five

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/21/donald-trump-central-park-5_n_5517784.html

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Interesting blog by By Tamar W. Carroll at the following link, some background on Trump

related actions organized by ACT UP's Majority Committee and other groups, mostly PoC during the 80's...

"The majority of people dying of AIDS were people of color": AIDS Activism & Rising Inequality
ACT UP targeted the media for its inaccurate portrayal of the epidemic and especially who was at risk; luxury real estate developers like Donald Trump for exacerbating homelessness; and city hall for its inadequate response to the epidemic.
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Recognizing Trump as a key symbol of the privatization of New York that contributed to the rapid increase in economic inequality in the 1980s, ACT UP continued to target him. The Housing Committee returned to Trump Tower on February 11, 1989, for the “Soup Kitchen Rally,” in which a coalition of city groups protested the city’s failure to address homelessness, and again on Halloween 1989, when ACT UP members passed out candy, condoms, and information about AIDS and homelessness."
http://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-majority-of-people-dying-of-aids-were-people-of-color-aids-activism-rising-inequality

So basically for me, the first thing I ever heard about Trump was that he was a racist predator to be totally boycotted and opposed. 1984. None of this should be a surprise to anyone.
Can't recommend that blog post enough.....