Practice question for emerging democracies

[cnelsen]

 

[The Great Goose]

He's not racist.

 

[cnm]

He only settled a case where the company of which he was president was accused of racial bias.

 

[cnelsen]

He only settled a case where the company of which he was president was accused of racial bias.

 

[cnelsen]

And that, for you, is enough, isn't it?

That, for you, sends all the information you need to drop effortlessly into the role you've been taught since childhood, and every sneer, every slur you utter on the matter will be perfect.

The real story of the settlement Trump reached with the racial shakedown office at the Department of Justice is, like reality, more complex. The settlement was with the real estate company Trump's father started, and concerned rental properties in areas like Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn--very Jewish, very middle class. A young Donald Trump worked for his father collecting rents and passed himself off as Swedish to avoid the anti-German bigotry of many of his father's tenants.

The 1970s saw massive public housing projects go up in those same neighborhoods as in many other neighborhoods in New York City. The result was always the same: the economic and social fabric in the immediate vicinity of the projects collapsed and the middle class people living there fled to the suburbs where their children could get educations without being beaten to a pulp every day by the violent children of the projects. But the collapse of those neighborhoods would have a spillover effect on the next immediate neighborhood away from the projects. Soon, that neighborhood would follow the one between it and the projects into catastrophic loss of the middle class. Property values would plummet. People with jobs and children would leave, and the criminal class would move in. That, in turn, would impact the next further away neighborhood from the projects, and so on, the crime and poverty expanding in concentric circles from the projects themselves.

So, people who lived in Brooklyn and many other places in the United States kept an eye on the neighborhoods between themselves and the nearest public housing project. If you had lived all your life in a neighborhood and had a stake in it and did not want to see it transform into shooting galleries and street-level menace, you resisted "those people" moving in next door. And who can't see their point?

But who can't see how unfair that is to the black family trying to join the middle class? The real villain, of course, was the liberal Democrats' dopey public housing programs, but on the ground, Trump's father's tenants made it clear: do not rent to any schvartzes or we are out of here. But discrimination in housing is illegal, and so something of a cottage industry at the DoJ sprang up shaking down landlords for violating the Fair Housing laws.

Trump's father's company was targeted and had to pay up. Forty years later, that settlement is being cited by cretins as the best evidence they have that his son, the president-elect, is a racist.

Pathetic. Yet so insane is our country on the whole anti-racism insanity that the mere accusation of racism based on the flimsiest of evidence is enough to send thousands of your comrades into the streets rioting and looting to "protest" the "racist" Donald Trump.

Really, you are mindless slaves.

Obama out.