Trump History of Racism

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Trump’s history of Racism, falsely accusing ‘Central Park Five’ of murder, refusing to appologize after found innocent, discrimination against minorities at residential properties he owned.

Description from MSNBC / YouTube: Rachel Maddow shares an exclusive NBC News interview with Stanley Leibowitz, Fred Trump’s rental agent, describing the instructions he received from Fred Trump, with his son Donald by his side, about keeping black people out of the residential properties he owned.

 

Title from YouTube: “How The Trumps Brought Death And Destruction To Coney Island”

Description from YouTube: “The Trumps once forced 900 mostly Black families living in Coney Island out of their homes. Here’s how the Trump family used taxpayer money to decimate a New York neighborhood”

 

Title from MSNBC / YouTube: Trump Still Thinks ‘Central Park Five’ Are Guilty

Description from MSNBC / YouTube: Chris Hayes talks with one of the men wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case, Yusef Salaam, about Donald Trump and his latest comments.

 

Title from MSNBC / YouTube: “Trump still refuses to apologize on calling for execution of exonerated Central Park 5”

Description from MSNBC / YouTube: “Trump, who once called for the five to get the death penalty, offered no apology even though the convictions were vacated”.

 

Title from MSNBC / YouTube: Exonerated Central Park Five man takes on Trump

Description from MSNBC / YouTube: Yusef Abdus Salaam joins Joy Reid to discuss how Donald Trump’s campaign appears to be dredging up destructive elements in our society, urged on in part by the GOP nominee’s ongoing, erroneous claims that Salaam and the other men in the Central Park Five are not really innocent.

 

Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue

In 1989 five black and Latino boys were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging in New York City. Leading the charge against them was a real estate mogul whose divisive rhetoric can be found in his presidential campaign today

According to the above article, two weeks after the Central Park attack, before any of the boys had faced trial and while Meili remained critically ill in a coma, Donald Trump paid a reported $85,000 to take out advertising space in four of the city’s newspapers, including the New York Times. Under the headline “Bring Back The Death Penalty.

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The Central Park Five Ad Told Us Who Donald Trump Really Is

How his 1989 condemnation of five innocent teens resonates today.