Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa

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Here are some examples of Trump’s history as a racist:

“One of the first mentions of Trump in The New York Times was in 1973, as a result of a federal discrimination lawsuit against his buildings over his company’s refusal to rent to black tenants. In 1989, he took out a full-page newspaper ad suggesting that the Central Park Five, black and Latino youths accused of the assault and rape of a white jogger, should be put to death. They were later exonerated. His rise to prominence in Republican politics was first fueled by his embrace of the conspiracy theory that the first black president of the United States was not an American citizen. “I have people that have been studying [Obama’s birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they’re finding,” he said in 2011. “If he wasn’t born in this country, which is a real possibility … then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics.”

These examples demonstrate that in his business he practiced (1) housing discrimination in regard to black and Latino people; (2) took public action that would circumvent due process to innocent black and Latino youths; (3) maliciously promoted a falsehood that the first black President was not eligible to serve as President.
 
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None of those things proves he is a racist. All kinds of employers and landlords have been sued for allegedly discriminating against someone or other. It goes with the business. I have seen it alleged many times when it didn’t actually happen. One of my friends was accused of it because he fired a black man, for example. The EEOC demanded all kinds of documents and were pretty harsh on him until they learned that he had adopted several “at risk” black children. He and his wife are white.

Such claims are so common that most companies of any size have full-time employees who do nothing but ensure compliance with discrimination laws and defend the company against unjust claims.

And plenty of people have called for harsh punishment for alleged rapists. Did he say “I think they should get the death penalty because they’re black and Latino. Now, if they were white, I wouldn’t”? No he did not.

And Dems called all kinds of people “racists” just because they opposed Obama. It was even common here on CAF.

I would bet dollars to donuts you would not, if you’re white and sane, walk through the streets of East St. Louis at night (or in the daytime). Does that make you a racist?
 
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  1. He might have done this but you don’t have him making racial statements. This is all inference.
  2. This one is just bizarre. He called for the execution of whoever raped this woman. The courts later decision was that it wasn’t the particular Blacks first arrested but some other Black man. Did Trump say that only blacks should be executed for rape? No. Did he say that innocent Blacks should be executed for rape? No. But somehow he is a racist.
  3. So because Obama was half Black we can’t doubt his strange origins? Did Trump say he didn’t believe Obama was a citizen because he was Black or because he was born to foreign national, lived overseas for many years, and there were contradictory statements about where Obama was born? It was the latter.
 
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All kinds of employers and landlords have been sued for allegedly discriminating against someone or other. It goes with the business.
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And quite the opposite happens. I know of Blacks who were caught stealing at banks they worked for but weren’t fired because the employer didn’t want to risk a lawsuit. It’s the same thing that happens with unions where they refuse to fire employees because of the hassle.
 
Same thing happens with white embezzlers. Banks are notorious for not prosecuting embezzlers regardless of color. It has to do with public image, not skin color.
 
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Banks are notorious for not prosecuting embezzlers regardless of color.
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Interesting. Around here, they’ll do it in a heartbeat. One of the reasons, I think, is that they’re required by regulation to do it.
 
It could be an urban legend. I first heard it in the 70’s when I worked for a bank from people who had worked there for 30 plus years.

That bank had a rule that everyone had to take five of their vacation days contiguously. This was to help prevent embezzlement, as embezzlers generally have to maintain constant vilegance in order to avoid being caught.
 
I don’t know about that. But this wasn’t just not prosecuting but not even firing them. Same thing happened and maybe still does with insurance companies.
 
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Would this be a good time for me to talk about Democrats who only voted for Barack Obama because (and I quote) “I’m really voting for Joe Biden, and not Barack Obama”.
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Sure. Perhaps the Trump fans will open their eyes to the fact that there really are deplorable racists in America - if they think they are Democrats. That would be a start.
 
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People in America need to STOP making excuses for people, ESPECIALLY for minorities.
 
Back to Haiti.

The airline airport in Haiti suffers from being a dump for garbage and trash.

See for yourself by visiting Zillow and scrolling down to Haiti.

Posters here have posted photographs of communities awash in garbage and trash. Callers in to talk radio have described airline pilots witnessing huge flows of raw sewage from streams into the ocean.

There is no municipal trash collection and proper disposal at their “Mount Trashmore” and no organized system of sewerage collection and treatment.

Maybe Trump can influence the Haiti local government to initiate some basic services and basic amenities.

There was a post here on CAF of a status report on progress with earthquake aide provided by the United States. Don’t know if it is still available.
 
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I think this is the report I am looking for on Haiti AID.


Since its initial planning and cost estimating began in 2010, USAID’s funding for the New Settlements program has significantly increased, while the number of permanent houses USAID projects will be completed has been reduced by over 80 percent. USAID underestimated construction costs at the time the New Settlements program was developed, and construction costs further increased after the Haitian government requested design changes that included larger houses with features such as flush toilets. USAID experienced problems securing clear land title for the new housing sites and in coordinating with NGOs and other partner donors. These issues have resulted in delays, with the program currently expected to be completed nearly 2 years later than initially scheduled. Moreover, the sustainability of these new settlements will depend heavily on the capacity of the Haitian government to provide key services and the ability of residents to maintain their homes. In addition, there is a potential gap in service to support the community management mechanisms that USAID officials consider crucial to the sustainability of each new settlement. If such support is reduced or delayed for some settlements, sustainability risks may increase.
 
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What GAO Found

As of June 30, 2013, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had obligated $336 million (52 percent) and disbursed $229.5 million (35 percent) of $651 million in funding for Haiti earthquake reconstruction from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010.

USAID has allocated $170.6 million to construct a power plant and port to support the newly developed Caracol Industrial Park (CIP). According to USAID documents and other studies, the CIP, power plant, and port are interdependent; each must be completed and remain viable for the others to succeed. USAID completed the first phase of the CIP power plant in time to supply the first CIP tenant with power. Port construction will begin more than 2 years later than originally planned, in part because of a lack of USAID expertise in port planning at the Haiti mission. According to current estimates of port construction costs, USAID funding will be insufficient to cover a majority of projected costs. The estimated gap of more than $117 million to $189 million is larger than initially estimated, and it is unclear whether the Haitian government will be able to find a private sector company willing to finance the remainder of the project.

USAID has reduced the targets for its permanent housing program in Haiti, to which it has allocated $97.3 million. The agency decreased the projected number of houses by more than 80 percent, from 15,000 to 2,649. The estimated number of beneficiaries was reduced from a range of 75,000 to 90,000 to its current estimate of approximately 13,200 to 15,900. These reductions resulted from inaccurate original cost estimates that used inappropriate cost comparisons and from the Haitian government’s request for larger houses with improvements such as flush toilets. USAID currently estimates that construction will be completed more than 2 years later than initially scheduled. Delays occurred primarily because of difficulties in securing land titles and coordinating with partner donors. USAID is attempting to mitigate potential sustainability risks, such as affordability and community cohesion, through community development mechanisms. However, it is uncertain whether these mechanisms will fully cover all sites.

Why GAO Did This Study

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti is estimated to have caused about 230,000 deaths, resulted in 300,000 injuries, and displaced about 2 million persons. Following immediate relief efforts, Congress provided $1.14 billion for Haiti reconstruction in the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010. USAID, which is responsible for implementing $651 million of this amount, has allocated about $268 million of this and other funding to construct a power plant and port to support the CIP in northern Haiti and permanent housing in several locations in the Port-au-Prince, St-Marc, and Cap-Haitien areas.
 
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So as expected, this whole thread is trying to prove what a racist Trump supposedly is. I have to say if you have to go to that much effort, he’s really not a racist. Or a sexist, or a bigot, or a homophobe or anti-immigrant.

BTW, saying nasty things about other countries isn’t racist, and Joe Biden has said similar things, yet he’s going to be the nominee in 2020 for the Democratic Party.

I should also point out that I’m not even sure what Donald Trump said if anything. I don’t trust the sources and am wondering how much of this is fake news.
 
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