BY RAOUL LOWERY CONTRERAS
The question is, is President Donald Trump a racist?
What are President Trump’s views of Brown and Black people?
In 1975, the Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the Trump men, Fred and Donald, who controlled 14,000 apartments in New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio, for discriminating against Blacks and Puerto Ricans.
Trump employees keyed rental applications with ethnic/racial code. “C,” for example, meant “colored.” “I,” for Puerto Rican “Islander.” When applicants personally handed applications in for processing they were no vacancies. Whites were shown apartments.
The 1975 DOJ charged the largest case of racial discrimination ever under the housing law.
A “twentysomething” Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuted the case. The Trumps hired scurrilous New York Attorney Roy Cohn to fight the lawsuit. He fought the young lady prosecutor with rumors and lies. The Trumps viciously attacked her publicly. The Trumps, both Democrats, accused the DOJ of being Republican political hacks.
The government’s case was solid, so solid, the Trump’s agreed to relinquish all apartment application processing to the Urban League of New York. They had to pay Urban League costs and millions of dollars in “mea culpa” newspaper advertising declaring that they were an “equal housing” company, albeit forced to say so by the U.S. government.
Donald Trump was not a teenaged apprentice mailroom clerk, he was 29 years old, seven years out of college, President of the company and he was running an illegal scheme.
Then came the infamous Central Park case of five young Black and Puerto Rican men accused of attacking and raping a young white woman jogger. Donald Trump bought full-page ads in newspapers demanding the death penalty for the “Five.” They were found guilty. Decades later they were found innocent and paid millions of dollars in damages. Donald Trump insists they are guilty.
Then came Donald Trump announcing for President in June 2015. Mexico was not sending its “best” to the United States, he said he declared Mexicans were “rapists, criminals and drug smugglers” but that “some” Mexicans were “nice people.”
He then declared that Mexican multi-billionaire ($50 or so billion, ten times what Trump is worth - Fortune Magazine) – Carlos Slim, a large stockholder in the New York Times, personally ordered the Times to smear Trump. Why? Slim is Mexican, of course, and he is not one of Mexico’s “best.”
Trump insulted the federal judge in a massive class action fraud lawsuit against Trump for his fraudulent “Trump University’s” rip off of thousands. When Judge Gonzalo Curiel made decisions against Trump, candidate Trump cried “ Mexican!” Judge Curiel was prejudiced against Trump, Trump says. He demanded Curiel recuse himself he was unfair. Why? Because Trump campaigned for a “wall” on the border. When informed that Curiel was not a Mexican but an American born in Indiana, Trump declared Curiel to be unfair because of his “Hispanic Heritage.”
Trump brags he has never lost or settled a lawsuit, Trump lies he settled the Trump University case for more than $30 million dollars. Since then Judge Curiel decided a case for Trump on, of all things, the “Wall.”
While President, he has declared that Haiti and other Black Caribbean and African nations are “Shit-holes.” He wishes all immigrants to the U.S. were from very-white Norway.
Emulating Barack Obama, Trump’s officers have stolen children from their families and illegally caged them and/or deported them to Mexico and other countries. A federal judge in San Diego ruled that the Trump Administration has violated laws in separating children from immigrant parents. He discovered that the Trump Administration doesn’t even know how many children or where their parents are.
Now, in 2020, the U.S. is being overwhelmed by coronavirus that has killed a hundred thousand Americans and may kill thousands more in future months. Statisticians have discovered that Black and Hispanic people are being killed in greater percentages than Whites and Asians. The problem, but one would not know it because the President hasn’t informed us of vulnerability by ethnicity or what his administration is doing about the underlying problems leading to massive deaths of Blacks and Hispanics.
Is President Donald Trump a racist? If he is, is that a reason to vote against him in November?
I didn’t vote for him in 2016. I will not in November. I’m just an American who wants a President who does what’s right. I want a President who will integrate schools at the tip of a bayonet, not one who throws paper towels at people he thinks are from “shit-hole” countries.”
Contreras is the host of THE CONTRERAS REPORT - AN HISPANIC VIEW OF THE USA and THE CONTRERAS REPORT - BUSINESS MEXICO, both podcasts available at: https://empoweringcontent.news/the-contreras-report/ Or on your favorite Podcast venue...
