Posted on 03/17/2016 8:04:59 PM PDT by Mensius
“When Donald opened his club in Palm Beach called Mar-a-Lago, he insisted on accepting Jews and blacks even though other clubs in Palm Beach to this day discriminate against blacks and Jews. The old guard in Palm Beach was outraged that Donald would accept blacks and Jews so that’s the real Donald Trump that I know.”
That was author Ronald Kessler in a July 2015 interview with Newsmax, talking about Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s business practices when it came to building a golf course in the Deep South.
In the 1990s, Trump was running into a problem getting his golf course approved by the local town council in Palm Beach, which was imposing restrictions on his bid.
So Trump shot back with maximum effect. As reported by the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan and Rosalind Helderman on Nov. 14, 2015: “Trump undercut his adversaries with a searing attack, claiming that local officials seemed to accept the established private clubs in town that had excluded Jews and blacks while imposing tough rules on his inclusive one.”
The Washington Post report continues, “Trump’s lawyer sent every member of the town council copies of two classic movies about discrimination: ‘A Gentleman’s Agreement,’ about a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to expose anti-Semitism, and ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ about a white couple’s reaction to their daughter bringing home a black fiancé.”
Sometimes, in judging the character of an individual, it pays to see what people actually do when nobody’s really paying attention. When it came to segregation in the South at private, all-white country clubs, it might have been in Trump’s business interests to simply look the other way. Instead, Trump did the right thing and insisted on desegregation at his golf resort.
And he won.
Thank you for posting. Have read this material as part of larger works but not as concise and well written as this.
Which clubs discriminatemail against blacks and Jews? I don’t believe it.
You know what this means right?
This means we all have to vote for Cruz now because Trump has hit the ceiling, right?
</sarcasm>
You don’t have to believe it. Do some research. The article names names.
You are very welcome. I’m just getting tired of the nonsense.
Another must read and share with those who echo bigot
Wait...Now I’m confused. I heard that Jake Tapper at CNN question whether Trump accepted a Klan endorsement.
Won’t matter. The left from hussein, blm and the screech on down will keep repeating “Trump’s a racist” and the LIVs will buy it, with their ebt cards.
Thanks for posting this.
There were many battles. When they were finishing up was when he flew the oversize American flag that has become legendary. But it all started with opening his clubs to ALL. (And he was rewarded with the Florida lanslide). BYW check out what his NY a poll numbers are today. !
Check out Clinton hangout Indian Creek.
Yet the left keeps lying that he is a racist. Of course, the term racist has become meaningless. Unfortunately, so has “Conservative.” Left-wing Glenn Beck and Billy Kristol are defined as conservatives. When they say X is conservative or not conservative, it no longer has much meaning.
Trump’s a liberal Democrat at heart, so he’s not a racist in the conventional sense. He’s the kind of racist that likes affirmative action.
That was fine for the 1990’s.
But after 2008, the standard to prove that you are not a racist is much higher than mere superficial equality.
After the Election of Barak Hussein Obama, to prove that you are not a racist, a white person must be willing to give up their job, donate 1/3 of their income to designated black people (or their chosen representatives) agree never to resist any unnofficial appropriation of their property or person by any non-white or other approved “minority” group.
In addition, they will may be called upon to grovel at the feet of any government official to beg forgiveness for the sins of any white people anywhere, at anytime.
That is today’s standard.
Now, all President Obama has to do is get Donald Trump to agree to the new standard.../s
O’Reilly is backing him up right now on his show that Trump is the furthest person from being a racist. Yeah, it’s O’Reilly, but a broken clock.
You mean the democrat founded klan who burned a cross in my republican ancestors yard ?
BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! BLeeeeeeeeeep!
Check those in his employ. It seems to me he prefers productivity.
You travel thread to thread denigrating Trump. I get it, don't agree with you at all. You should come up with some proof one of these days, you've had months and months.
Trump’s Palm Beach Club Roils the Old Social Order
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB862335923489989500
When Trump Fought the Racists
http://spectator.org/articles/64643/when-trump-fought-racists
at the very very least, try to know a little something before you post an ignorant comment.
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