Trump Has Always Had Complicated Personal Relations With Blacks - NYT
Trump Has Always Had Complicated Personal Relations With Blacks
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR and MAGGIE HABERMANAUG. 17, 2017
Kara Young, a biracial model, and Donald J. Trump at a film screening in Manhattan in 1998. The two dated for two years. CreditRichard Corkery/New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images
WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a biracial model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship. As with so many issues, he steered the conversation to celebrity.
“I didn’t hide my race from Donald Trump. He knew,” Ms. Young said in a rare interview. “He would say, ‘You’re like Derek Jeter.’ And I would say, ‘Exactly.’”
“I never heard him say a disparaging comment towards any race of people,” she added.
The furor that Mr. Trump has created with his equivocation over the violence this weekend at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., has refocused attention on the president’s complex relationship with matters of race. Long before he embarked on his improbable political career, he had courted racial controversy, calling for the death penalty for five black and Latino teens wrongly convicted of a rape in Central Park, settling a Justice Department suit that charged the family business with housing discrimination and falsely accusing the nation’s first black president of being born in Kenya.
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