Posted on 01/21/2016 4:25:04 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Donald Trump is plenty loathed these days for lining his campaign trail with what many find to be racist proclamations, but Woody Guthrie was way early on the tip with a hatred for Trump's father spanning back more than 65 years.
In 1950 the famed "This Land Is Your Land" populist folk singer moved into a Brooklyn public housing project owned by Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, and soon found it to be segregated by a color line excluding any black tenants. As Gawker reports, in Guthrie's writings he took to calling the white "Beach Haven" neighborhood "Bitch Havens."
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Guthrie's notebooks include idyllic writings about destroying the color line to create a diverse community there with "a face of every bright color laffing and joshing in these old darkly weeperish empty shadowed windows." As well, they include scathing words about the landlord Trump.
One poem reads:
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 ....
And another:
Beach Haven ain't my home! I just cain't pay this rent! My moneyâs 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 ainât my home!
While Donald Trump abandoned his father's middle class housing empire to build his own luxury residences, hotels and golf courses, he has at least conveyed a connection to his father's legacy. ("My legacy has its roots in my fatherâs legacy," the presidential hopeful told the Washington Post last year.) So it's probably safe to say Guthrie would have hated Donald just like he did his father.
Smell the desperation!!
Dredging up common every day business practices from 65 YEARS ago, by a candidates father!!
What a laugh.
Having trouble with the post button.
These leftist pukes will stop at NOTHING, will they?
Trump’s right... the media is corrupt and evil.
Subsidized...
It’s getting funnier, to watch the twist, by the minute, isn’t it?
I would love to see a 24 hour moratorium on these Trump/Cruz posts. Just one day.
Trump don’t want a pickle.
He just wants to ride his motorcycle.
And Trump don’t wanna die.
He just wants to ride his motorcy
cle.
But Al Gore’s racist father doesn’t have any bearing Al.
“Woody Guthrie Was Calling a Trump Racist More Than 65 Years Ago”
Another avowed Communist hating Trump is just the kind of endorsement Trump needs.
Let us not forget one of the Kennedy properties had a clause that of statement of some sort preventing Blacks from buying or renting the property.
He repeatedly said he was supporting Jeb.
I haven’t seen the liberal machinery this discombobulated for decades. Sheer panic. It’s delightful. :)
How convenient. The wikipedia edit was added in January 2016 introducing hearsay commentary vis-a-vis Fred Trump.
Guthrie was an alcoholic drug abusing schizophrenic and eventually died from Huntington s disease
lololol I’m laughing too hard to post on thus thread lolololol
Yes. Many houses built 60+ years ago still have deed restrictions and covenants on them forbidding their sale to Blaacks, oftentimes Jews as well. For example, I’m sure Whoopi goldberg’s mansion in Tuxedo Park, NY, a 120 yr old subdivision that makes Beverly Hills look like Detroit still has such a clause on the deed. Also, Hilary’s mansion in Chappaqua, NY an “old money” town in Westchester surrounded by country clubs that no doubt still find ways to flaunt anti-discrimination laws when it comes to membership. But these clauses have long ago been declared null and void by passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and other state-level legislation.
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