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Donald Trump's Dad Was So Racist That Woody Guthrie Wrote A Song About How Racist He Was
n 2015, future President Donald Trump issued a seemingly innocuous (but seriously disturbing, when put into context) statement: "My legacy has roots in my father's legacy." But it's not just a penchant for business that trickles down from the top of the gold-encrusted Trump family tree. Trump's dad Fred had an unexpected occupant in one of his New York properties in the early 1950s: American balladeer and social justice warrior Woody Guthrie. And guess what? Guthrie was no fan of Old Man Trump.
While contemporary musicians like Adele, Miley Cyrus and Waka Flocka Flame have all taken to social media in order to slam Donald Trump's ideals, this was merely round two. Over 60 years ago, Guthrie was feverishly penning tunes lambasting Fred Trump for racist behavior. "Old Man Trump," Guthrie's song about Fred, exposed a dark world where the landlord and rumored KKK affiliate profited off of an apartment complex that housed only white families. It included the scathing lines, "I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate/He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts/When he drawed that color line."
Woody Guthrie is known as a founding father of American protest music. His most famous work was the alternative version of the national anthem ("God Bless America" ) called "This Land Is Your Land," which he wrote in 1941. It has been played at protest rallies, sung around campfires, and trumpeted at progressive schools because of its appeal to a Left-leaning political mentality. It was his very lifestyle that made him understand struggles within the tight confines of the American dream. He was thrown deep into the trenches of Middle American life as he walked, hitchhiked, and road railways from his home in Oklahoma across the country.
By the time Guthrie encountered Fred Trump, he had already written racially charged protest songs like "The Ferguson Brothers Killing," which condemned the police brutality that killed Charles and Alfonso Ferguson in 1946; however, it took over 60 years for historians to discover the impact Trump had on the singer-songwriter.
While contemporary musicians like Adele, Miley Cyrus and Waka Flocka Flame have all taken to social media in order to slam Donald Trump's ideals, this was merely round two. Over 60 years ago, Guthrie was feverishly penning tunes lambasting Fred Trump for racist behavior. "Old Man Trump," Guthrie's song about Fred, exposed a dark world where the landlord and rumored KKK affiliate profited off of an apartment complex that housed only white families. It included the scathing lines, "I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate/He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts/When he drawed that color line."
Woody Guthrie is known as a founding father of American protest music. His most famous work was the alternative version of the national anthem ("God Bless America" ) called "This Land Is Your Land," which he wrote in 1941. It has been played at protest rallies, sung around campfires, and trumpeted at progressive schools because of its appeal to a Left-leaning political mentality. It was his very lifestyle that made him understand struggles within the tight confines of the American dream. He was thrown deep into the trenches of Middle American life as he walked, hitchhiked, and road railways from his home in Oklahoma across the country.
By the time Guthrie encountered Fred Trump, he had already written racially charged protest songs like "The Ferguson Brothers Killing," which condemned the police brutality that killed Charles and Alfonso Ferguson in 1946; however, it took over 60 years for historians to discover the impact Trump had on the singer-songwriter.
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