WEBVTT - Way Black History Fact - Donald Trump's History of Racism

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, it's time for the way Black History Fact.

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<v Speaker 1>And today I'm going to share a bit from Politico.

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<v Speaker 1>The FBI releases files on Trump's apartments race discrimination probe

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<v Speaker 1>in the seventies. So this is for all those people

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<v Speaker 1>who say Donald Trump's not racist, all right, this is

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<v Speaker 1>a fair article. This is not a biased article. So

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<v Speaker 1>it won't sound the way I would like it to sound,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's fair and it'll still paint the picture. The

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<v Speaker 1>FBI has released nearly four hundred pages of records and

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<v Speaker 1>an investigation the bureau conducted in the nineteen seventies into

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<v Speaker 1>alleged racial discrimination and the rental of apartments from President

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump's real estate company. The files detailed dozens of

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<v Speaker 1>interviews the bureau conducted with Trump building tenants, management, and employees,

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<v Speaker 1>seeking in indications that minority tenants were steered away from

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<v Speaker 1>housing complexes. Most of these interviews said that they were

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<v Speaker 1>not aware of any discrimination. However, some of the records

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<v Speaker 1>recount the stories of black rental applicants who said they

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<v Speaker 1>were told no apartments were available, when whites sent to

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<v Speaker 1>check out the same apartments were offered leases. The records

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<v Speaker 1>posted on the FBI's Freedom of Information Act website included

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<v Speaker 1>a nineteen seventy four interview with a former dorman at

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<v Speaker 1>a Trump building in Brooklyn. A supervisor quote told me

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<v Speaker 1>that if a black person came to twenty six to

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<v Speaker 1>fifty Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent,

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<v Speaker 1>and he that is redacted was not there at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>that I should tell him the rent was twice as

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<v Speaker 1>much as it really was, in order that he could

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<v Speaker 1>not afford the apartment. The ex dorman said. Many of

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<v Speaker 1>the accounts of discrimination appeared to have originated with the

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<v Speaker 1>National Urban League, which relayed the information to the Justice

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<v Speaker 1>Department's Civil Rights Division. Some of those complaints were barely legible,

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<v Speaker 1>and many of the records were heavily redacted. In October

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy three, the Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit

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<v Speaker 1>against Trump Management Company, Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>alleging that African Americans and Puerto Ricans were system systematically

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<v Speaker 1>excluded from apartments. The Trumps responded with a one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>million dollar countersuit accusing the government of defamation. Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>denied any racial discrimination, but said his managers tried to

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<v Speaker 1>read out certain kinds of the tenants. What we didn't

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<v Speaker 1>do was rent to wellfare cases white or black, Trump

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<v Speaker 1>wrote in a nineteen eighty seven book. The Trumps and

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<v Speaker 1>their company entered into a consent decree settling the litigation

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen seventy five. The agreement contained no admission of wrongdoing,

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<v Speaker 1>but required the Trump firm to institute a series of

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<v Speaker 1>safeguards to make sure apartments were rented without regard to race, color, religion, sex,

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<v Speaker 1>or national origin. Okay, so that's the fair, you know whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I want to read some other things Instances of

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<v Speaker 1>racism from Box. This is not exhaustive. This is just

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of things, because this is a short segment.

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<v Speaker 1>In the nineteen eighties, Kit Brown, a former employee at

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's castle, accused another one of Trump's businesses of discrimination. Quote,

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<v Speaker 1>when Donald and Ivana came down to the casino, the

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<v Speaker 1>bosses would order all the black people off the floor.

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<v Speaker 1>Brown said, it was the eighties. I was a teenager,

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<v Speaker 1>but I remember it. They put us all in the back,

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<v Speaker 1>all right. Next up, in nineteen eighty nine, the Central

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<v Speaker 1>Park five. For those who don't know the story, Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump called for the death penalty of five teenagers wrongfully

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<v Speaker 1>accused of raping a woman in Central Park. Later on,

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<v Speaker 1>in October twenty sixteen, he said he still believes they're guilty,

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<v Speaker 1>despite the DNA evidence to the contrary and a forty

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<v Speaker 1>one million dollar settlement in their favor, and they're now

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<v Speaker 1>referred to as the Exonerated five. Nineteen ninety one, a

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<v Speaker 1>book by John o'donald, former president Trump Plaza Hotel and

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<v Speaker 1>Casino in Atlantic City, quota Trump's criticisms of a black

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<v Speaker 1>accountant quote, black guys counting my money? I hate it.

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<v Speaker 1>The only kind of people I want counting my money

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<v Speaker 1>are short guys that wear yamaka's every day. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that the guy is lazy, and it's probably not his fault,

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<v Speaker 1>because laziness is a trait of blacks, it really is.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe that it's not anything they can control. Unquote.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump later said in a nineteen ninety seven Playboy interview

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<v Speaker 1>that quote, the stuff o'donald wrote about me is probably true. Quote,

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<v Speaker 1>and then his comments about the Ground Zero mosque in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty ten. Of course, the burther movement with President Obama,

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<v Speaker 1>the s whole countries, and the Muslim band, on and on.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an exhaustive list, but suffices to say that Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has been accused of racism many times in his life,

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<v Speaker 1>so I don't want to hear it.