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."
How Donald Trump Became the Most Contentious Figure in Latin Music in 2015
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.
Donald Trump is likely to have the gene of at least one slave owner in him.
Are you going to vote for that type of person?
In other words, Trump Sr. was following government guidelines and the prevailing practices of the day. Both were bad, but nothing unique to Trump. "Enthusiastic embrace" and "New Deal vision" may reflect the writer's own prejudices. I don't think he's looked at how developers and landlords behaved -- or at the racial ideas and practices of FDR-era politicians.
The New York State throughway is closed, man!
I wonder if Woody, or this writer, ever visited Chicago in the early 1960’s. If they had, they would have witnessed the construction of public housing projects such as the Robert Taylor Homes, which ostensibly were designed to provide affordable housing, but which wound up warehousing and segregating large numbers of blacks away from the white neighborhoods, and became notorious hotbeds of crime, violence, and social disintegration. Mayor Richard J. Daley (Democrat) had the aim of segregation in mind when the locations for these projects were picked.
I think Hillary’s parents were Republican
Crikes, in 1950 everything was segregated. Let’s pick on Trump’s dad.
They were very industrious in the late fifties in Chicago. I remember picking up lead dimes and quarters in my change. Who but a hard worker would counterfeit dimes?
When Trump moved to Florida he was asked to join clubs that did not allow “blacks or Jews”. When he opened his own club he opened it to all. The local big shots went ballistic. They tried every local ordinance to make life difficult That is when Trump erected the oversized American flag on his property. They even fought that. He moved it and made it even larger.
I’m curious. What about Che Guevara? What was his opinion of Trump’s father? Or Stalin? Or Karl Marx? What did they have to say about Trump’s ancestors?
I remember those too in St. Louis.
I would love to see a 24 hour moratorium on these Trump/Cruz posts. Just one day.No one is stopping you from posting pretty much anything you want about whoever you want...Post away.
Actually first and second generation from Germany and Scotland. Legal immagrants
Bob Dull said he is for Jebbie but would prefer Trump to Cruz if they were the two finalists. So far, Elizabeth has been speechless.
Okay, so that wouldn’t fly. Drat.
LOL
It was meant to express the types of things that people think Trump should be disqualified for.
Ask Ubama.
Mr. Community Organizer did wonders with Federal money for low-cost housing in Chicago.
Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy"About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."
July 17, '08
Fannie, Freddie spent millions on lobbyingRaines, the company's former chief financial officer, Timothy Howard, and former controller Leanne Spencer were accused in a civil lawsuit of manipulating earnings over a six-year period at Fannie. Raines was appointed by Clinton, after serving as White House budget director under Clinton.
Raines' predecessor, former Fannie Mae chief James Johnson, is a prominent Democrat who was an adviser to 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and was selected by Obama to help vet his vice presidential prospects. But controversy over favorable loan deals he obtained with Countrywide Financial Corp., a bank seriously damaged by the mortgage meltdown decline, prompted him to abruptly resign that post in June.
From April '08
Former Fannie chief agrees to $24.7 million settlementWASHINGTON - Former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines and two other top executives have agreed to a $31.4 million settlement with the government announced Friday over their roles in a 2004 accounting scandal.
Raines, former Fannie chief financial officer Timothy Howard and former controller Leanne Spencer were accused in a civil lawsuit in December 2006 with manipulating earnings over a six-year period at the company, the largest U.S. financer and guarantor of home mortgages.
Raines, a prominent Washington figure who was President Clinton's budget director, is relinquishing company stock options, proceeds from stock sales and other benefits. His part of the settlement is worth $24.7 million,
Tough Decision Coming August 28th '08
"Two members of Mr. Obama's political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae."
Big section in book THE TRUMPS by Gwenda Blair covers his father’s testimony before congress exposing the NYC housing corruption. He was praised by the Indiana Senator head of the committee and told to keep up the good work
BYW if you have a garage attached to your house thank Fred Trump. It was his idea to put a little room next to the house to make it easier for the families during bad weather. It is one reason that FT was so successful His houses were in great demand
More Trivia about Trump family above
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