Since Trump made bigotry in vogue again here's my story.
This occurred in the mid nineties. My buddy and I were small business-people. In fact the company was so small it was only me and him. We published directories and guides for associations. We would sell advertising space in them and use the proceeds to pay the printer, the graphic designer, and the writers. What was left over after that we would keep for ourselves. Call us bootstrap capitalists.
We set up appointments one day with three Central Florida associations to see if we could could publish their directories and guides. I won't get specific to protect the guilty. We had three appointments in one day. At two out of the three we heard bigoted statements from the executives themselves or the staff. The redeeming thing is we spoke to an ex mayor of a middle sized Central Florida town who then ran a Chamber Of Commerce. He was the only one who didn't make a bigoted comment. One executive said we would have a hard time selling advertisements to his members because their names, hint, hint, ended in precious metals. The secretary at another association told us she stopped going to a certain lounge, hint, hint, because it became too dark.
Thank you, I think, Mr. Trump for giving these people a voice.
