We can stop beating around the bush.
No more "that has racial undertones" or "he is enabling white supremacists."
We need to just call Trump what he is, a racist.
I'm sorry for the long post. These actions are weaved in and out of other threads in Politics & Religion, but I felt this topic deserves its own.
In the 1970s, the Department of Justice sued the Trumps for discrimination based on the Fair Housing Act, while Donald was President of the Trump Organization. Rental agents were instructed not to rent to blacks and to reduce the number of black tenants. Applications were marked with secret codes for minorities. Trump settled and agreed to meet certain standards. The Department of Justice renews the discrimination charges when the Trumps continue to discriminate in spite of the settlement agreement.
In 1989, after 5 black and Latino Harlem teenagers Harlem were accused of assaulting and raping a white woman in Central Park, Trump spent $85,000 placing full-page ads in the four daily papers in New York City, calling for the return of the death penalty. “Muggers and murderers should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.” 14 years after their sentences were vacated based on DNA evidence and the detailed and accurate confession of a serial rapist named Matias Reyes, Mr. Trump has doubled down. “They admitted they were guilty. The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous.”
In 1991, Trump is quoted: "“ Black guys counting my money! I hate it… Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.” He did not confirm the quote at the time but 7 years later said it "was probably true."
In 1992, a Judge found the Trump Plaza Hotel discriminated when it removed an African-American dealer from a table at the request of a wealthy player.
In 1993, during a Congressional hearing talking about Native American casino officials, Trumps says, "They don't look like Indians to me" and accuses them of working with organized crime. He adds that political correctness have given Native American status to some people who don’t “look like Indians.” He would renew these attacks recently against Senator Warren.
In 2000, after renewing his attacks on Native Americans, Trump agrees to apologize and pays a $250,000 for secretly buying ads against Native American-owned casinos. The ads included pictures of syringes and cocaine and asked, "Are these the neighbors we want? “
2011, birtherism begins. Trump leads the charge attacking our first black President's birth. He also questions Obama's placement at Columbia and Harvard and says he "should get off the basketball court."
In June 2013, before the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin trial, Trump tweets:
An FBI report disputes this claim.
In February 2015, Trump says Mexico is sending "criminals" over the border. That June, while announcing his candidacy, he now calls Mexicans coming across the border "rapists." The next month, he tweets and later deletes that Bush “has to like the Mexican illegals because of his wife,” a Mexican immigrant.
November 2015, after a black protester chanting “Black Lives Matter” at a Trump rally in Alabama rally was pushed and punched, Trump tweets and later deletes false statistics about the percentage of whites killed by blacks.
2015 to present, Muslim ban...
While giving a foreign policy speech in Poland in July 2017, Trump stresses the need to protect “the West, “civilization” against forces from “the South and East” that threaten western values.
The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Joe Arpaio oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in U.S. history, and subsequently filed suit against him for unlawful discriminatory police conduct. Arpaio's office paid more than $146 million in fees, settlements, and court awards. Multiple courts find him guilty of racial profiling. A Federal court issued an injunction barring him from conducting further "immigration round-ups". Despite this, Arpaio's office continued to detain "persons for further investigation without reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is being committed." In July 2017, he was convicted of criminal contempt of court.
In August 2017, a white nationalist attending a rally drove a car into a crowd, killing one protester and injuring many more. Trump condemned “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides.” He did not mention white supremacists or nationalists specifically.
December 2017, Trump says Haitians "all have AIDS." In related statements this week, Trump says he wants immigrants from (white) countries like Norway instead of "s#!tholes" like (black) Africa.
