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I guess I should also admit I love both Woody Guthrie as well his son: there, now I own it too.
I’m no big Trump supporter, but where’s the proof that Fred Trump was a racist?
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”.
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’?
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.
Guthrie = socialist vs Trump = capitalist. End of story.
I have no clue what will be the ‘required’ thinking on your post. But I am sure I am about to find out.
Yawn.
Did you know that Malia and Sasha Obama’s father is a racist scumbag?
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.
Woody Guthrie wrote a weekly column for The Daily Worker and said, “The best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party” (although he was never actually an official Party member).
This Woody Guthrie?
Woody Guthrie: One Hundredth Birthday of a Communist
http://www.oklahomaconstitution.com/ns.php?nid=382
By: Constitution Staff
It is appropriate because Guthrie was a philosophical communist. While Guthrie claimed to have joined the American Communist Party, there is no conclusive evidence that he ever did. What he did do was write 174 columns under the title of Woody Sez for the Communist Party newspaper, The Daily Worker. Among these columns, he heaped praise upon Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, even defending Stalin’s unprovoked invasion of Poland in 1939!
Guthrie’s most famous song was This Land Is Your Land, which was inspired as a retort to the patriotic God Bless America by Irving Berlin.
.... Robbin, who became Guthrie’s political mentor, introduced Guthrie to socialists and Communists in Southern California, including Will Geer (who, in turn, introduced Guthrie to John Steinbeck). Robbin remained Guthrie’s lifelong friend, and helped Guthrie book benefit performances in the Communist circles in Southern California. Notwithstanding Guthrie’s later claim that “the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party,” he was never a member of the Party. ...
Guthrie asked to write a column for the Communist newspaper, People’s World. The column, titled “Woody Sez”, appeared a total of 174 times from May 1939 to January 1940. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/811100/posts
Then what about Bill Clinton’s acknowledged political mentors - former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright and former Arkansas Gov. Orville Faubus - who were both rabid segregationists? Yet the former president highly praises Fulbright and bestowed upon him the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award.
By the way, Fulbright was one of 19 senators who issued a statement titled, “The Southern Manifesto,” condemning the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education and defending segregation. That’s a bit more recent than Thurmond’s run for the White House. Does Clinton’s praise of Fulbright mean that he supported “The Southern Manifesto,” just as the assertion that Lott’s praise of Thurmond means he supported Thurmond’s segregationist stand in 1948? If so, why not also condemn Clinton?
I have several possible theories on the responses to Lott’s rather stupid remarks - stupid in the context of our politically correct world.
My first theory is that conservatives are held to higher standards of decency, conduct and decorum than liberals. In other words, it’s like behavior that’s tolerated in the case of children but ostracized when adults do the same thing.
That theory might also explain why racist statements made by blacks are excused.
Another theory is that since 9-11 and President Bush’s public popularity, both appointed and unappointed black leaders have had no platform and been paid no attention. Lott’s gaffe gives them platform, voice and mission.
Finally, the Democrats, having lost all branches of national government in the recent elections, are desperate to get something on Bush and the Republicans, and Trent Lott’s statement is the answer to their prayers.
There are plenty of things to criticize Trump about, but this is really a reach.
The apple does not fall far from the tree, either.
I do not care one way or the other what Woody Guthrie thought about anyone, or anything, 'cause he is dead, dead, dead.
As for Arlo, I don't care if he lives or dies...I'll not take nor solicit political advice or information from him, either.
So now, I'll own that.
Not trashing Trump...
Sure you are.
But I'm not currently a Trump supporter, yet...but I damned sure ain't a Guthrie supporter, I hated the SOB and every damned thing he stood for...so go find some dirt that looks more like dirt, huh?
In fact, look hard enough and you'll find a picture of Guthrie as Sanders...socialists all...and something you damned liberals think is the next best thing for this country...and you are wrong.
Period.
If Guthrie was such a man of principle why did he stay in the apartment for two years?
When Fred Trump was a teenager, baseball teams were ALL WHITE. They lived in a very different world from today.
Guthrie was a communist who opposed war against the Nazis up until the day the Nazi/Soviet pact ended, and then he was all for it. So, in other words, his loyalty was for whatever the Soviet Union desired. Not really caring about his opinion about anything.