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On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Mark Lause <markala...@gmail.com> wrote: > I honestly don't believe I have to point this out, but Wilson held power, > and Trump has not. > I honestly don't believe I have to point this out, but in the US it is the billionaire class that holds the real power, not their servants like Obama. Trump has the power to deny black people housing: > When Trump was serving as the president of his family’s real estate company, the Trump Management Corporation, in 1973, the Justice Department sued the company for alleged racial discrimination against black people looking to rent apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. > > The lawsuit charged that the company quoted different rental terms and conditions to black rental candidates than it did with white candidates, and that the company lied to black applicants about apartments not being available. Trump destroyed my home town, not Wilson My brother worked in these casinos my mother had to live in the cesspool of crime and corruption he created. > Workers at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have accused him of racism over the years. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine. > > The first-person account of at least one black Trump casino employee in Atlantic City suggests the racist practices were consistent with Trump’s personal behavior toward black workers. > > “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, told the New Yorker for a September article. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” > > Trump disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms, according to a 1991 book by John O’Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. > > “And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” O’Donnell recalled Trump saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” > > “I think the guy is lazy,” Trump said of a black employee, according to O’Donnell. “And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” > > Trump has also faced charges of reneging on commitments to hire black people. In 1996, 20 African Americans in Indiana sued Trump for failing to honor a promise to hire mostly minority workers for a riverboat casino on Lake Michigan. The argument that Trump is untested and powerless while Clinton has had power as Obama's employee and did all these things that had racist effects, is of great service to Trump. You cover up this history with your assertion that Trump has no power [just billions in capital - strange thing to hear of on a Marxist list, of the powerless billionaire class!!] Which fits so perfectly with Trump's "What’d you got to lose?" pitch to black people. Rather than supporting Trump's claim that he should be given a chance because he is untested and so far, powerless, I think we need Marxists that exposes Trump's racist hypocrisy by talking about what he has actually done to black people and working people in general. But I don't expect to see that type of exposure from the Green party because any effective exposure of Trump would drive more people to vote against him and hurt Stein's chances at the polls. Hurt Trumps chances too. Great way to build a revolutionary movement, pretty much guarantees the Green party will remain "educated, urban, nonprofit activists; educated, university town professionals; and well-to-do hippies in the exurbs" but that ain't enough to make a revolution. Regards Clay Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust <http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com> Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
