Sorry Donald, You Have To Answer For Your Racist Past!!!!!!!

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[font size="4"]Housing[/font]

Trump made a fortune before his career as a reality TV star predominately in the world of real estate, where he took the reins of his father's burgeoning housing empire in the early 1970s and expanded it to become the global juggernaut it purportedly is today. But in 1973, he was introduced on the national stage for less auspicious reasons: his battles with the U.S. Justice Department over charges of violating the Fair Housing Act. The Trumps were accused of systematically discriminating against black tenants seeking rentals in their buildings, even using a code letter "C" to represent "colored" applicants.







[font size="4"]Crime [/font]

In 1989, he infamously took out four full-page ads in local New York City newspapers calling for the restoration of the death penalty in the state, particularly so it could be enforced on the so-called Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens accused of beating and raping a white female woman who had been jogging in the city's iconic park that April.

Years later, when the real perpetrator confessed, and the Central Park Five were exonerated (it was determined that their initial confessions were coerced), Trump refused to back down. When the city of New York agreed in 2014 to pay the young men $41 million in damages for spending years in prisons for a crime they didn't commit, Trump called it the "heist of the century" and a "disgrace" in an unrepentant op-ed for the New York Daily News.







[font size="4"]Birtherism[/font]





[font size="4"]Racist Language[/font]









[font size="4"]Retweeting White Supremacists[/font]





[font size="4"]Hiring A White Nationalist As Your Campaign CEO[/font]




http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-s-history-undermines-new-outreach-black-voters-n635821

[47of74]

1. Yeah Trump is the lowest form of racist shit around.

He really is.

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3. his talk to "the blacks" (his language) this morning

who does he think he's kidding????

[HipChick]

8. A racist rarely changes their viewpoint..

they might hide it to pander to votes..

[lunamagica]

2. And for his racist present

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4. yes, I included his retweeting white supremacists and hiring one as his campaign CEO

I'm just waiting for the MSM to go after him on his racist past and present as tenaciously as they go after Hillary on her Emails.

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5. The Media Are Doing an Abysmal Job of Covering Donald Trump’s Racism

By Joan Walsh
August 30, 2106

Hillary Clinton’s speech on the racial bigotry and white grievance that pollutes Donald Trump’s campaign should turn out to be the most consequential address of the campaign, even of the decade. We have to go back to Barack Obama’s 2008 Philadelphia speech to find such honesty about race and racism and, in Clinton’s case, about the way one campaign in particular has used it to divide the country in the last year.

I confess, I had some worries about the speech. I didn’t want her to get down in the filth of what’s called the “alt-right,” a sewer-level playground for white supremacists, anti-Semites, and racists. I wasn’t sure how deftly she could link their nihilism and nationalism to Trump. She did it very well, grounding her speech in Trump’s own words and Trump’s own history. She derided his current “appeal” to African Americans for the way it plays on right-wing stereotypes of black people and black neighborhoods as ravaged by crime, disease, poverty, and ignorance. “He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field. The vibrancy of black-owned businesses…. Or the strength of the black church.… He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive.”

She tied the ongoing struggles of black Americans to the pervasiveness of discrimination—including discrimination perpetrated by Trump himself, going back to his having to settle claims of racial bias against black tenants in his housing developments in the 1970s and ’80s. Clinton let details tell the story. “Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’—’C’ for ‘colored’—and then rejected,” she said, with a quiet, building disdain.

Walking the crowd through Trump’s long personal history of bigoted appeals, she began with his claim that President Obama wasn’t born here, “part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black president,” she told the crowd. “He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. And he accused the Mexican government of actively sending them across the border. None of that is true.” She ticked off the racism of saying Judge Gonzalo Curiel can’t do his job because “he’s Mexican,” which even House Speaker Paul Ryan, she said, called “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” She reminded us of Trump’s penchant for retweeting white supremacists and anti-Semites, and his claim that he didn’t know anything about David Duke and his career as a white supremacist. In fact, he’d denounced Duke as a white supremacist back in 2000 when the former KKK grand wizard joined the Reform Party.

read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-media-is-doing-an-abysmal-job-in-covering-donald-trumps-racism/

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6. thanks for all for the recs

I wish there were some way we could get the MSM to do their job and share these stories with the voters, and CONFRONT Trump on his racist past.

How can we just let these incidents slide? We're just NINE weeks from the election.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. they're doing the "making shit up" routine now, fast and hard, when it comes

to the latest email scandal iteration. I thought it would wait until next week, when Chaffetz calls for yet another Hillary testimony session, but they just can't wait

it's bush/gore, bush/Kerry all over again, writ large, because of social media

the whole idea of media desire for a horse race is horse SHIT, btw. they're ideologically driven more than profit-centered, though that's a convenient dodge. how obvious does it have to be? who RUNS these companies, for Christ's sake?

as one of the idiotic memes that has sprung up this time says, perhaps the only hope for a trump loss lies in the "baked in" theory. problem is, now they're touting the idea that all the movement toward him/it is coming from the sources they claim the new, presidential trump is attracting, with his photo op 'victories' in Baton Rouge, Mexico City, and Detroit. expect more of the On Bended Knee 'journalism' that began with Reagan in 1980.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/On_Bended_Knee.html

We have been kinder to President Reagan than any President that I can remember since I've been at the Post."

So said Benjamin C. Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, some four months before the November 1984 re-election of Ronald Reagan. Three years later, after the Iran-Contra affair had shattered Mr. Reagan's previous image of invincibility, I asked the legendary editor if he still stood by his statement. He did. Stressing that this was "all totally subconscious," Bradlee explained that when Ronald Reagan came to Washington in 1980, journalists at the Post sensed that "here comes a really true conservative.... And we are known-though I don't think justifiably-as the great liberals. So, [we thought] we've got to really behave ourselves here. We've got to not be arrogant, make every effort to be informed, be mannerly, be fair. And we did this. I suspect in the process that this paper and probably a good deal of the press gave Reagan not a free ride, but they didn't use the same standards on him that they used on Carter and on Nixon."


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What made relations with the press especially vital to the success of Reagan's presidency was the fact that much of his agenda was at odds with popular sentiment. On the basic political issues f his day, Ronald Reagan was much farther to the right than the majority of his fellow citizens. (Contrary to the widely accepted conventional wisdom of the time, American mass opinion in the late 1970s and early 1980s was not galloping to the right. As political economists Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers have demonstrated, public opinion was shifting, if anything, slightly leftward during that period, with Reagan's policies themselves apparently providing some of the impetus.)

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In a country where politics had increasingly become a contest of images rather than ideas, there was a certain bizarre inevitability about a B-grade movie star finally being elected President. Administration officials usually played down Reagan's acting abilities, conceding at most that his personality was what made him such a good salesman. But in a not-for-attribution interview, one former White House aide made a rare admission: "He's an actor. He's used to being directed and produced. He stands where he is supposed to and delivers his lines, he reads beautifully, he knows how to wait for the applause line. You know how some guys are good salesmen but can't ask the customers to give them the order? This guy is good for asking for the order, and getting it."

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Repetition was necessary because, in a modern electronic society, the messages that actually pierce the static and register on people's consciousness are those which are repeated over and over again.

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Reporters could be as liberal as they wished and it would not change what news they were allowed to report or how they could report it. America's major news organizations were owned and controlled by some of the largest and richest corporations in the United States. These firms were in turn owned and managed by individuals whose politics were, in general, anything but liberal. Why would they employ journalists who consistently covered the news in ways they did not like?

To the class of super-rich and powerful businessmen who ultimately controlled the U.S. news media, Ronald Reagan was the most ideologically congenial President in living memory.

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As Ben Bagdikian wrote: "Some intervention by owners is direct and blunt. But most of the screening is subtle, some not even occurring at a conscious level, as when subordinates learn by habit to conform to owners' ideas."

the images over ideas principle was writ large in Reagan's criminal regime, and was covered superbly in the book, but not excerted here, from what I could find. it's well worth reading the whole thing, because, as is quoted in the third world traveler excerpt linked here, Image reigned supreme for Reagan, and, under Ailes tutelage, has become paramount now.

in the book, several of the myriad "journalists" interviewed admitted that, even as they presented very critical assessments of what Reagan was perpetrating on the public, it was always accompanied by carefully staged PHOTO OPS, which ran over the actual WORDS, which, apparently, according to these journos, the news consuming public ignored, instead concentrating on the heroic image of a grand, wise Oz, wisely and munificently ruling over his domain

sound familiar? remember, Reagan was behind for quite awhile in 1980, only assuming command of the campaign in mid may. see for yourself, and note that the debate was key in cementing his stolen victory:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8o91ks4ix_ZEw96GfYdf-AI5Mu1I4zqH1Xf4vfMW1yJXw-WbK_LqkhePM8rp_Fy87Umohb5czMwjbLE8O6i_WwrM_H4xfIE-KUwNf1ajpJxOM7zx9cT69xDsVJKmGmSNG-xOVMU0

let's just hope the half baked "baked in" theory holds true, and there aren't enough idiots left to be swayed by the toxic imagery with which they're about to be inundated

[Gabi Hayes]

9. oh....got carried away without mentioning the quality of this thread, as usual.

where's the other racist thread? bring that back, too!

did you see him dancing at the Detroit church? somebody put that up here.

the angry preacher from Cleveland is four people to his left. that was the real highlight.

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10. I'm not so sure we can discount the "horse race," ratings, profit angle to it

I do notice the similarities in trying to make a total know-nothing buffoon look presidential.

Do you remember when they had Reagan deliver a speech using the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop?

Image has taken precedence over policy.

As you wrote, "photo op 'victories' in Baton Rouge, Mexico City, and Detroit."

That's how we decide an election? Who can be made to LOOK presidential?

The media have failed to expose how disastrous the few policies Trump has released would be.

And they've basically ignored his hypocrisy on a number of issues. He outsources the manufacturing of his clothing lines to Mexico and China. He has a history of hiring illegal immigrants. A member just posted yesterday that the Trump Foundation was caught in an actual 'Pay-To-Play' scheme.

But all we hear is how presidential he looked in Mexico. And look, he's attending a black church; he's reaching out.

Yep, Trump is getting a free ride!

[Gabi Hayes]

14. On Bended Knee covers the Image is All aspect of modern politics, as raised to the highest

level by Nofziger, Gergen, etal, in the most specific detail, with its centerpiece being interviews with major players on both sides, including the most famous 'journalists' of the day, who appear to be largely confounded that Reagan 'got away with it,' while ignoring their decisive role in going along, just as they did with Bush during the run up to the 2d Iraq war.

if you have the time, you should at least read the excerpt at the link I posted, and the book, as well.

or...there's this:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/press/interviews/hertsgaard.html

frontline show on the subject:

steven Talbot interviews him.....he of Salon Mag

ST: On Bended Knee has become a sort of classic book, I think it's fair to say, in courses on journalism these days. The argument in your book was in part that Reagan was so charismatic, so powerful, and had won by such a large vote that the Press Corps in Washington was intimidated by him, and no one dared criticize him. What about the Press Corps today?

MH: Clinton has had a much tougher time with the Press than Reagan did, and part of that is the charm that Mr. Reagan had. But that was always much overstated, as was his supposed popularity. If you really go and look at the statistics, Reagan was not so popular.

Essentially in Washington what you have is a Palace Court Press. And they reflect the views within the palace that is known as official Washington. And essentially they report the spectrum of opinion from Democrat to Republican, which many Americans have now come to recognize, is not a very broad spectrum.

This was very good for Reagan, because Reagan really faced no opposition party. The Democrats were really, as I say, very cowed by his supposed popularity, and indeed, often agreed with him outright.

for years my computer wallpaper was this, in tribute to the democratic party's supine relationship with Bush 43:

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19. thank you Gabi Hayes for the link

Reagan really faced no opposition party. The Democrats were really, as I say, very cowed by his supposed popularity, and indeed, often agreed with him outright.

pathetic!

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11. But but but

he loves the blacks

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12. "THE" blacks

CONSERVATIVE columnist Kathleen Parker wrote a great piece about Trump and his use of "THE" blacks ...


Trump can’t fake love of ‘the blacks’

August 30, 2016

When Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with “the Blacks,” I wonder if he also gets along well with the Smiths. We know he’s tight with the Whites.

But what’s with the definite article?

During a brief dalliance with Google, I learned that Trump has used “the” before whites at least once — when commenting that Black Entertainment Television doesn’t offer awards to “the whites.” But for the most part, he reserves “the” for “the blacks,” or, as most people would say, “blacks,” if they don’t say “African Americans.”

Oftentimes, you’ll find the word “people” following “black,” as in: Black people are people, too, which is what I want to say to Trump every time he says “the blacks.”

“The blacks” is such an odd way of referring to any group of people (the Asians, the whites, the Latinos) precisely because it does what it shouldn’t. “The,” as Trump uses it, effectively functions as a separatist term, which tells us a great deal about Trump’s attitude toward, if I may, black people. Even while insisting that he has a good relationship with “the blacks,” Trump betrays an objectifying posture that would suggest otherwise. I don’t doubt that he has friends who happen to be black or black employees with whom he is cordial, if not friendly. At a certain economic level, race erases itself and racial identity becomes irrelevant.

read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-cant-fake-love-of-the-blacks/2016/08/30/82ad3f24-6ef2-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html

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13. Mr & Mrs Black

Don the Con clearly has no understanding of the meaning of the definite article

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15. "no understanding of the meaning of the definite article"

Trump is really really really smart. He said so himself. He knows the best words.

Trump blasts New York Times: ‘They don’t write good’

“They don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t — they don’t write good,” he said. "They don’t know how to write good.”

see http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-new-york-times-226546

[Gabi Hayes]

16. when it's not "the" blacks, of course, it's this:

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17. A sick and cynical racist

for sure

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18. and "THE" gays ...