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Woody Guthrie really did not like Donald Trump’s racist dad
MSN News ^ | 1/21/16 | Will Kaufman

Posted on 01/21/2016 7:45:39 PM PST by 5150 FREEPER

In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take.

Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an equal share for all in America. Below that is the signature of Donald Trump’s father, Fred. No pairing could appear more unlikely.

Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before been published; they should be, for they clearly pit America’s national balladeer against the racist foundations of the Trump real estate empire.

Recalling these foundations becomes all the more relevant in the wake of the racially charged proclamations of Donald Trump, who last year announced, “My legacy has its roots in my father’s legacy.”

According to court records, four superintendents or rental agents confirmed that applications sent to the central [Trump] office for acceptance or rejection were coded by race. Three doormen were told to discourage blacks who came seeking apartments when the manager was out, either by claiming no vacancies or hiking up the rents. A super said he was instructed to send black applicants to the central office but to accept white applications on site. Another rental agent said that Fred Trump had instructed him not to rent to blacks. Further, the agent said Trump wanted “to decrease the number of black tenants” already in the development “by encouraging them to locate housing elsewhere.”

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While this is obviously a leftist slanted article since Trump wants all other candidates to own their siblings, wives, husbands, parents, friends perhaps he should take ownership of his own heritage as well. Not trashing Trump, just saying all seems fair in this election, including holding Trump accountable in that that seed money he received from his father may have been blood money.

I guess I should also admit I love both Woody Guthrie as well his son: there, now I own it too.

1 posted on 01/21/2016 7:45:39 PM PST by 5150 FREEPER
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2 posted on 01/21/2016 7:47:33 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

I’m no big Trump supporter, but where’s the proof that Fred Trump was a racist?


3 posted on 01/21/2016 7:49:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

My late wife’s Great Uncle grew up in Okeema, Oklahoma. He was the same age as Woody and knew him well.

I remember at a family get together, some guy asked Uncle Milt what kind of guy Woody was.

Uncle Milt thought for a short time and then said: “He was just plain sorry”.


4 posted on 01/21/2016 7:51:02 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

Uncle Milt was right.


5 posted on 01/21/2016 7:52:28 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

So now we are supposed to dislike Trump based on hearsay regarding his father.

Wow, are they digging. The 2 Corinthians thing was lame but this one is ‘so what’.

Or should I say, ‘like, yeah man, so’?


6 posted on 01/21/2016 7:56:49 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Instead of reaching back 66 years to examine Trump’s father’s alleged feelings toward other races, why not ask some of Trump’s employees of today?

This article is a complete crock.


7 posted on 01/21/2016 7:57:33 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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Ahh, good, more racist label. Keep going MSM, white guilt went out the window after electing a black president (and re-electing him.)
8 posted on 01/21/2016 7:57:41 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

Guthrie = socialist vs Trump = capitalist. End of story.


9 posted on 01/21/2016 7:58:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

I have no clue what will be the ‘required’ thinking on your post. But I am sure I am about to find out.


10 posted on 01/21/2016 7:58:44 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: yarddog

Sounds like Woody was more like a Johnson. Not in a good way.


11 posted on 01/21/2016 7:58:56 PM PST by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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I didn't like that Woody Guthrie was a communist.

Yawn.

12 posted on 01/21/2016 7:59:47 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: TexasCruzin

Sounds like Woody was more like a Johnson. Not in a good way.

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Isn’t “Johnson” a euphemism for “prick”?


13 posted on 01/21/2016 8:01:03 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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I loved it when I found out one of Trumps's most successful inner circle execs was a hispanic woman.

This is incredible BS, but typical of the left.

One thing for sure, another candidate would wilt with the colonoscopy the media would give.

Trump is the first that I've seen since Reagan that goes over their heads and forms his own narrative.

14 posted on 01/21/2016 8:01:42 PM PST by Lakeshark
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Did you know that Malia and Sasha Obama’s father is a racist scumbag?


15 posted on 01/21/2016 8:04:58 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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“Instead of reaching back 66 years to examine Trump’s father’s alleged feelings toward other races,”

Insanity.

I swear if the PERFECT person ran for president,one who both parties loved,someone would toss the word “racism” at him..

We all seem to be drowning in racist accusations——and they have become meaningless.

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16 posted on 01/21/2016 8:05:28 PM PST by Mears
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To: yarddog

Woody had an aversion to work and personal hygiene.


17 posted on 01/21/2016 8:06:24 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: 5150 FREEPER

lol...now an article about Trump’s racist dad. Even if true I would bet that you could find the father of any 70 year old and make a pretty good case that they were a racist.


18 posted on 01/21/2016 8:07:01 PM PST by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: Jim Robinson

I never liked Woodie’s stupid commie song.

I guess 6o yrs ago there were segregated restrooms, water fountains and Negros went to the back of the bus in Dallas Tx.

I am so disillusioned that New Yawkers were not much different than us “dumb Southerners” /s


19 posted on 01/21/2016 8:08:47 PM PST by Gasshog (Newly discovered element Trumpamentium causes a Chain Reaction of Testicular Fortitude!!)
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To: TexasCruzin

Woody Guthrie was an ill-tempered worthless f***ing Stalin-loving COMMIE!

His much milder natured son Arlo must have broken his Soviet heart. Arlo Guthrie would never have inscribed his guitar with “This Machine Kills Fascists!”


20 posted on 01/21/2016 8:13:10 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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