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applegrove

(118,629 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:08 PM Oct 2017

Eric Trump and Don Jr. are planning to open 'plantation-style'

luxury hotels in poor black areas

SARAH K. BURRIS at Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/eric-trump-and-don-jr-are-planning-to-open-plantation-style-luxury-hotels-in-poor-black-areas/

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Mississippi is desperately trying to attract tourism to a state known for being last in economic and education markers for success. They’re capitalizing on their best asset: it’s the birthplace of blues music. Museums and clubs have popped up on Highway 61, known as “the Blues Highway.” The local economy scored a massive $20 million economic boost last year when it opened a Grammy museum in Cleveland that focused on blues players like B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. So, the town needs hotels.

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“We are very hesitant to work with reporters at this point — everything we say, explain, do — is taken out of context,” Dinesh Chawla told The Post. “It’s frustrating that we seem to be used as pawns in a game.”

There’s a concern that the black community won’t be willing to spend money in the Trump-owned hotels given accusations of racism surrounding the NFL player protests, Charlottesville, attacks on Rep. Frederica Wilson and history of propping up white supremacists.

“I think if the Trumps’ bottom-line profits for a hotel in the Mississippi Delta are predicated on black people coming and spending money, I think they are in serious trouble,” said Rep. Thompson.

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. I wish the trumps didnt have 1.7 billion american dollars from Putin to do business with
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:12 PM
Oct 2017

they are terrible in business, they are horrible people.

I wish they were homeless.

sheshe2

(83,746 posts)
2. Plantation Style?
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:34 PM
Oct 2017

Yup, Massa's Dumbfuckstations will be going to the local prison to lease them some help for a dollar or two. They will treat them like slaves, working them 18 hours a day, no wages, little food and forcing them to live chained and in squalor. A daily beating or two, hanged as needed and setting dogs on them if they do not work fast enough.

Think I am kidding? This is trumps America now and our history proves that we will repeat the past...try reading Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. This was going on up to WWII and it was happening in Mississippi and throughout the south.

applegrove

(118,629 posts)
3. Doesn't sound like a moral or good business plan to me. But Trump and Ivanka cannot nix it as
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:36 PM
Oct 2017

they're in government now and it is illegal with the boys.

EllieBC

(3,014 posts)
4. Wake up, Dinesh Chawla!
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:39 PM
Oct 2017

You think the Trumps are your friends because you are all wealthy? Nope. You aren't white. You are easy to use and for them to pretend to like. They hate you too, they just won't say it to your face. Stop being a player for them.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
5. Maybe they will partner with Paula Dean to make all of their fantasies come true.
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:40 PM
Oct 2017
https://www.google.com.kh/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/paula-deens-ugly-roots/amp

...."The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the
antebellum South. (In planning Bubba’s wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, “I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.”) In other words, we now have “Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition,” with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.".....

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