BREAKING NEWS: FBI releases 700 page report on Trump's race discrimination probe in the 70s

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DOJ: Trump’s Early Businesses Blocked Blacks

DOJ: Trump’s Early Businesses Blocked Blacks

Here are the highlights:
  • In the 70's he along with his father instructed landlords to deny potential rents of colored. They would do this a number of ways. This included instructing the landlord to attach a blank piece of paper to the application with a big letter C on it, presumably for "colored" so they can be denied or to give black applicants fake applications
  • The way he was caught was through the a equal housing group sending "testers" where on the same day they would send white and black applicants to see if there was a difference in responses. Black applicants were informed no units were available while on the same day, several instances where white applicants were informed there were several empty units.
  • In one case of testing, a black husband and white wife team did some testing. The black husband was interested in a two bedroom and was told there was nothing available. The white wife on the same day inquired about 2 bedrooms and was informed 2 units were available
  • The final kicker was that when ask in the press about this, Trump claimed that they were trying to force him to take in welfare recipients, while several landlords corroborated each other in stating that the rule from the Trumps was to deny specific races of applicants, even if they had the money for the apartment and welfare was never an item of discussion during the process
  • An indian man was also almost denied housing until the donald found out he had ties to the UN and they approved his application
The above link has plenty of anecdotes and there is no debate to be had he engaged in this practice.
 
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:russ: Obama hasn't done shyt for black folks. So what's worse Trump not letting a bunch of sellouts move out the hood instead of uplifting their OWN community. Or Obama a Black man from the Chi that has completely ignored us and turned his back on the black church and community that pushed him up from a community organizer to a US Senator to President?

:russ: y'all acting like LBJ wasn't a fukking true racist his damn self and look what he did. Why can't we as Black folks talk about the issues and leave this "who's less racist then the next" shyt alone. Hillary and her husband as done far more to harm black folks so idk were racism is even a factor here....:francis:
 
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Chicken Pot Pie said:
Obviously the logical course of action is to let him in the White House.
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#trumpset is a running joke for wanting to see the implosion of the moderate republican base and the exposure of the rampant racism within the Evangelical ranks. There are probably only 5 actual Trump supporters on this site.

I really don't think you understand that your thread premise does not actually support Hillary Clinton at all. Ok, so Trump racially discriminated against blacks in the 70s. White folks who are center right pragmatist would just argue that it wasn't on the basis that they were black, it was an economic issue. Like I don't think you guys understand what pragmatist look like throughout the course of history. Reagan, the God of the Republican party, was a pragmatist. Its laughable that you guys think pragmatist would be at the forefront of an issue like housing segregation. That's like a moderate having issues with gentrification. Speaking of gentrification, here is an article from 2006 Harlem Residents: Clinton Is Symbol Of Gentrification - The New York Sun:
Ever since Governor Pataki signed a law in 2003 that gave landlords the right to demand standard rent from tenants used to paying preferential rent — an amount lower than the standard price — landlords have demanded prices that tenants can't afford, she said. "There's a substantial difference between the two, like $300 or $400," Ms. Orridge said.
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That Pataki guy - pragmatist. That policy right there - pragmatic.

Trump racially profiled blacks, but up until a year ago he was a celebrated contributor to the Clinton campaign. She's not at odds with him because of his business practices, but you think parading them around will create some level of backlash amongst the electorate that Clinton herself was never capable of showing.
  • If Clinton was cool with Trumps past due to the amount of money he made, and the amount he was able to contribute to her campaigns, then wouldn't Republican voters now view Trump in that same positive light? He is playing ball on their team now after all.
  • Why would Centrist voters be upset about discriminatory policies in the 70s (that they more then likely supported within their own neighborhoods) when they're able to overlook Clintons stances in the 90s?
You see how this works? No - still not clear? Ok how about this.

Here is the list of top contributors to Hillary's campaign: Sen. Hillary Clinton: Campaign Finance/Money - Top Donors - Senator Career | OpenSecrets
  1. Open a new tab
  2. Go to google
  3. Type in a name of the contributor on that list along with the following words "class action suit racism"
  4. Sit back and realize that they're all ran by Trumps
Matter of fact, I'll help you with a few right now:
Do you see how stupid it is bringing up the discriminatory past of a billionaire who at some point funded your candidate?
 
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FBI releases files on Trump apartments' race discrimination probe in '70s

By JOSH GERSTEIN


02/15/17 05:47 PM EST

The FBI has released nearly 400 pages of records on an investigation the bureau conducted in the 1970s into alleged racial discrimination in the rental of apartments from President Donald Trump's real estate company.

The files detail dozens of interviews the bureau conducted with Trump building tenants, management and employees, seeking indications that minority tenants were steered away from housing complexes.

Most of those interviewed said they were not aware of any discrimination. However, some of the records recount the stories of black rental applicants who said they were told no apartments were available, while whites sent to check on the same apartments were offered leases.

The records, posted on the FBI's Freedom of Information Act website, include a 1974 interview with a former doorman at a Trump building in Brooklyn.

A supervisor "told me that if a black person came to 2650 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment," the ex-doorman said.


Many of the accounts of discrimination appear to have originated with the National Urban League, which relayed the information to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Some of those complaints are barely legible, and many of the records are heavily redacted.

In October 1973, the Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against Trump Management Company, Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump, alleging that African-Americans and Puerto Ricans were systematically excluded from apartments. The Trumps responded with a $100 million countersuit accusing the government of defamation.

Donald Trump denied any racial discrimination, but said his managers tried to weed out certain kinds of tenants. “What we didn’t do was rent to welfare cases, white or black," Trump wrote in a 1987 book.

The Trumps and their company entered into a consent decree settling the litigation in 1975. The agreement contained no admission of wrongdoing, but required the Trump firm to institute a series of safeguards to make sure apartments were rented without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
 
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"Told me that if a black person came to 265307 ocean parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is (redacted) was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment."

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This is history.
 
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