#DumpTrump - Trump was sued for not renting to African Americans

[TheBigotBasher]

After a lengthy legal battle, Trump was forced to agrre wide-ranging steps to offer rentals to non-whites.

One of Donald's first challenges came in October 1973, when the Justice Department hit the Trump Organization with a major discrimination suit for violating the Fair Housing Act. The Times reported:

... the Government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals "because of race and color." It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.

The journalist Gwenda Blair reported in her 2005 Trump biography that while Fred Trump had sought to combat previous discrimination allegations through "quiet diplomacy," Donald decided to go on the offensive. He hired his friend Roy Cohn, the celebrity lawyer and former Joseph McCarthy aide, to countersue the government for making baseless charges against the company. They sought a staggering $100 million in damages.

A few months after the government filed the suit, Trump gave a combative press conference at the New York Hilton in which he went after the Justice Department for being too friendly to welfare recipients. He "accused the Justice Department of singling out his corporation because it was a large one and because the Government was trying to force it to rent to welfare recipients," the Times reported. Trump added that if welfare recipients were allowed into his apartments in certain middle-class outer-borough neighborhoods, there would be a "massive fleeing from the city of not only our tenants, but communities as a whole."

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/28/donald_trump_discrimination_suit

Fight racism #DumpTrump

[monmouth]

1. The donald has open up this box and he deserves every bit of

venom that is sure to ensue. His "I am above it all" is going to come crashing fast and hard. I know for a fact that he does not drink, his colorful language in Nevada was not alcohol fueled as some may think, he's crashing... He's read and is shocked that he is not all that loved. Personally, I refer to this as Christmas in April...

[RichGirl]

2. Send an email to.....

Pepsi PR man

[e-mail]

tell him to not support a racist by advertising on the apprentice. tell him you will never put your mouth to another container of pepsi!

[Maraya1969]

6. done

[Jack Rabbit]

3. "I get along fine with the blacks"

Well, he is one of the few people who would sit next to Don King.

[boppers]

4. I think they share the same Barber.

That would explain a lot, no?

[TheBigotBasher]

5. Have a look at this

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