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 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!
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 father’s 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.
People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers
As one Okie to another ....
My attitudes towards Rafael `Ted’ Cruz have sure changed recently from watching his supporters in action here.
ob Dull said he is for Jebbie but would prefer Trump to Cruz if they were the two finalists. So far, Elizabeth has been speechless.
He also said he was a conservative Republican and Cruz was a RINO..
Oy vey.....
The damned old fool died one 50 years ago.
Commies ALWAYS call capitalists “racists”.
I just read that article and it didn’t make sense.
Do I need to go back to school or was it the author?
Surly Mark Twain had something to say about Trumps Great Grandfather.
Thank You. Agree.
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain.
“Do I need to go back to school or was it the author?”
You’re fine. The author of the article, however, is an idiot.
Wrong Guthrie isn’t it?
What pathetic drivel this article is.
Yep, but it worked so well.
Lol, seriously.
So if we’re going to trash Trump’s dad, does that mean all the dad’s are fair game? I really wonder about Kasich’s dad!!
The ultimate silly season. In the meantime, how much intel did hillary share?????
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