Donald Trump's Dad Was So Racist That........

[Little Star]

Woody Guthrie Wrote A Song About How Racist He Was

In 2015, future President Donald Trump issued a seemingly innocuous (but seriously disturbing, when put into context) statement: "My legacy has roots in my father's legacy." But it's not just a penchant for business that trickles down from the top of the gold-encrusted Trump family tree. Trump's dad Fred had an unexpected occupant in one of his New York properties in the early 1950s: American balladeer and social justice warrior Woody Guthrie. And guess what? Guthrie was no fan of Old Man Trump.

While contemporary musicians like Adele, Miley Cyrus and Waka Flocka Flame have all taken to social media in order to slam Donald Trump's ideals, this was merely round two. Over 60 years ago, Guthrie was feverishly penning tunes lambasting Fred Trump for racist behavior. "Old Man Trump," Guthrie's song about Fred, exposed a dark world where the landlord and rumored KKK affiliate profited off of an apartment complex that housed only white families. It included the scathing lines, "I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate/He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts/When he drawed that color line."

https://www.ranker.com/list/woody-guthrie-old-man-trump/mariel-loveland?ref=dshare&source=fbshare&

Good read!

[DonaldsRump]

1. Are you kidding me???

Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the Buffoon's father? I had no idea.

Is this it?

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[Goonch]

4. Fred

[Jane Austin]

11. Wow. That mustache is

reminiscent of, I don't know, who?

[homegirl]

13. Notice

the homage to Hitler mustache.

[Little Star]

5. Guthrie reworked his signature Dust Bowl ballad......

“I Ain’t Got No Home” into a blistering broadside against his landlord:
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!


Read more here:

http://theconversation.com/woody-guthrie-old-man-trump-and-a-real-estate-empires-racist-foundations-53026

[eleny]

6. Or this one

Old Man Trump
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Ryan Harvey

I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project

Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both
Welcoming you here to Beach Haven
To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place
To have your kids raised up in.

Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

*The recorded version of this song is available on iTunes.

*Ryan Harvey's YouTube Video

[DonaldsRump]

10. I really am stunned....

I really had no idea about this. I had heard before the 2016 election that Fred Trump had some "issues" and that there was a 1970s settlement with the government over housing. There was also mention of an arrest at a Klan rally.

This, though, is something else altogether, at least for me. Woody Guthrie is like Bob Dylan, someone whose songs speak to everyone.

I know what "they" say about sins of the father and all that jazz, but surely something like this would resonate, especially with older Americans. If the guy who wrote "This Land Is Your Land" hated this ass so much, that surely means something, especially to independent-thinking folk.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. The apple didn't fall too far from the tree.

[Little Star]

3. For sure!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. BTW, it's a crab apple tree!

[Little Star]

8. lol

[Hortensis]

9. Here's a Jan. 2016 NY Times article on it.

Woody Guthrie Wrote of His Contempt for His Landlord, Donald Trump’s Father

“He thought that Fred Trump was one who stirs up racial hate, and implicitly profits from it,” the scholar, Will Kaufman, a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire in Britain, said in an interview.

https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/?_r=0

[disalitervisum]

12. Of a piece with trumps firing of racial minority employees in his Russian financed Jersey casinos

He fucked a lot of my friends, of course, because that's who he is, that's what he does, that's all he does. He and his whole filthy family.

[keithbvadu2]

14. The Trump family falsely claimed primary Swedish heritage vice the true German heritage

The Trump family falsely claimed primary Swedish heritage vice the true German heritage

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-mocks-warrens-native-american-heritage-claim-but-false?utm_term=.hrN5grRZ6#.nn8b1XG0m


http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/26/nyregion/fred-c-trump-postwar-master-builder-of-housing-for-middle-class-dies-at-93.html

[Capperdan]

15. Wow. They should play this every day on a loudspeaker..

Right in front of his towers...or the White House. I never knew this, thanks for posting.