Posted on 01/21/2016 4:25:04 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Donald Trump is plenty loathed these days for lining his campaign trail with what many find to be racist proclamations, but Woody Guthrie was way early on the tip with a hatred for Trump's father spanning back more than 65 years.
In 1950 the famed "This Land Is Your Land" populist folk singer moved into a Brooklyn public housing project owned by Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, and soon found it to be segregated by a color line excluding any black tenants. As Gawker reports, in Guthrie's writings he took to calling the white "Beach Haven" neighborhood "Bitch Havens."
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Guthrie's notebooks include idyllic writings about destroying the color line to create a diverse community there with "a face of every bright color laffing and joshing in these old darkly weeperish empty shadowed windows." As well, they include scathing words about the landlord Trump.
One poem reads:
I suppose Old Man Trump knows Just how much Racial Hate he stirred up In the bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed That color line Here at his Eighteen hundred family project ....
And another:
Beach Haven ain't my home! I just cain't pay this rent! My money’s down the drain! And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven looks like heaven Where no black ones come to roam! No, no, no! Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!
While Donald Trump abandoned his father's middle class housing empire to build his own luxury residences, hotels and golf courses, he has at least conveyed a connection to his father's legacy. ("My legacy has its roots in my father’s legacy," the presidential hopeful told the Washington Post last year.) So it's probably safe to say Guthrie would have hated Donald just like he did his father.
Guthrie was a commie 65 years ago.
Wow, how desperate is this? IN 2016 we care what Woody Guthrie said 51 years ago - are you kidding me?
But then again, the headline is written in today's form of garbage journalism.
I wonder what Hillary’s dad’s hiring policy at his business was seeing that Chicago was a highly segregated city.
MORE DESPERATION! Go Trump 2016!
Woody Guthrie ping.
Well Bob Dole conservative republican just endorsed Trump an Greta!!!
[ Guthrie was a commie 65 years ago. ]
Even Glenn Beck KNOWS Guthrie was a commie.
“This land is our land” is a commie folk song screed.
Oh, brother.
65 years ago? The comedy hit post of the day.
Someone forgot to take their medication today. I’m concerned.
Trump for President
Trump for President
Trump for President
It’s been my long life’s experience that people who get really excited about racism are racists themselves....that goes for blacks, whites, and all shades in between.
You can get anything you want
At Beach Havens housing block
(’ceptin’ Negroes).
How is a public housing project owned by a private investor/developer?
Back when Beck was really good, breaks down the Woody Guthrie song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcD_KGPPH7E
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