Generally, those are “pattern” offenses that don’t necessarily reflect anything other than failure to ensure that one meets a racial quota.
. . . . That’s not what the suits involved at all.
" The lawsuit was based on evidence gathered by testers for the New York City Human Rights Division, which alleged that black people who went to Trump buildings were told there were no apartments available, while white people were offered units.
Back then, Sheila Morse worked as one of those testers. When a black New Yorker was turned down for service and racial bias was suspected, Morse, who is white, would be dispatched to see if she received different treatment.
In this case, a black man in search of an apartment in Brooklyn in 1972 saw a sign on a building: “apartment for rent.”
"He met with the superintendent, and the superintendent said, ‘I’m very sorry, but the apartment is rented — it’s gone,’ " Morse says. "So the gentlemen said to him, ‘Well, why is the sign out? I still see a sign that says apartment for rent.’ And the superintendent said, ‘Oh, I guess I forgot to take it down.’ "
When Morse went to the building to ask about the same apartment, she says, “They greeted me with open arms and showed me every aspect of the apartment.”
Morse says she reported her experience to the Human Rights Commission, and then returned to the apartment building. After she was offered a lease, the black man who had tried to rent the apartment entered the office with a city human rights commissioner, and the three of them confronted the building superintendent.
"He said, ‘Well, I’m only doing what my boss told me to do — I am not allowed to rent to black tenants,’ " Morse says.
The commissioner asked the building superintendent to take him to his boss. That turned out to be Trump Management."
" Donald Trump furiously fought the civil rights suit in the courts and the media, but the Trumps eventually settled on terms that were widely regarded as a victory for the government. Three years later, the government sued the Trumps again, for continuing to discriminate.
In fairness, those suits date from long ago, and the discriminatory policies were probably put in place not by Donald Trump but by his father. Fred Trump appears to have been arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927; Woody Guthrie, who lived in a Trump property in the 1950s, lambasted Fred Trump
in recently discovered papers for stirring racial hatred.
Yet even if Donald Trump inherited his firm’s discriminatory policies, he allied himself decisively in the 1970s housing battle against the civil rights movement."
Clues come from decades of words and actions.
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Remember Trump tried to say Cruz’ father was involved in the JFK assassination because of ties to ‘Fair Deal for Cuba’? What should we say about Fred Trump’s demonstrated history of racism?
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