Trumpites: Sniveling, Lying, Lazy Racists Who Are Afraid of Gainful Employment

[Christopher Helms]

Republicans are very frustrated because the media just keeps
making it seem like both the party and their candidate are
racist.

Twelve years ago, the GOP seemed on its way toward broadening
its base, boasting 167 black delegates at its convention. That
year, President George W. Bush drew 16 percent of the black
vote here in Ohio, unusually high for a Republican, to help
secure his reelection, as well as 11 percent nationally, and
party leaders had hoped to increase minority engagement in
2016.

This year, the number of black delegates is 18. Out of 2,472.
But that can’t be because of anything Trump has said! After all
…

Trump has vowed that he would unify the races as president.

“I am not a racist,” he told The Washington Post in an
interview earlier this year. “I’m the least racist person that
you’ve ever interviewed.”

That’s right. Trump will unify the races around statements like
this:

“I think that the guy is lazy. 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.”

The “laziness” statement came after Donald Trump started having
financial difficulties at his casinos in Atlantic City. Trump’s
response? He had black accountants. And he managed to squeeze
two forms of racism into a single statement.

John O’Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel &
Casino and later wrote a memoir about his experience, said
Trump blamed financial difficulties partly on African American
accountants.

“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza
— black guys counting my money!” O’Donnell’s book quoted Trump
as saying. “I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting
my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those
are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else.
.?.?. Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I
think that the guy is lazy. 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.”

Of course, Trump hasn’t read O’Donnell’s book, because Donald
Trump doesn't read.? But he did give an interview.

Trump told Playboy magazine that O’Donnell’s memoir was
“probably true.”

For those who believe that racism isn’t inherent, but has to be
taught. Trump apparently had plenty of opportunities to
learn—going back at least to when he was working with his
father in the 1970s.

When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn
complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said
she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a
white woman who made the same request was invited to choose
between two available apartments. …

In October 1973, the Justice Department filed a civil rights
case that accused the Trump firm, whose complexes contained
14,000 apartments, of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

The Trumps hired Roy Cohn—yes, that Roy Cohn—to defend them in
the case, They did what the Trumps always do, countersued for
$100 million and made claims that the government was trying to
force them to “rent to people on welfare.” Cohn also helped
them concoct a series of claims that the Justice Department was
employing “Gestapo tactics.” Cohn’s antics were thrown out. The
Trumps settled the case.

But Trump already had a plan to keep from having to deal with
that sort of problem again.

At the time the suit was filed, Trump had been thinking about
veering away from his father’s ­focus on providing housing for ­
lower- and middle-income residents of Brooklyn and Queens, and
envisioning his future as a developer of luxury buildings for
the rich in Manhattan.

The rest is history.

But Donald Trump’s attitude about race? That’s still very much
the present.


http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-thinks-black-
people-are-lazy