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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Sat May 5, 2018, 01:36 PM May 2018

Donald Trump's Dad Was So Racist That Woody Guthrie Wrote A Song......

By the time Guthrie encountered Fred Trump, he had already written racially charged protest songs like "The Ferguson Brothers Killing," which condemned the police brutality that killed Charles and Alfonso Ferguson in 1946; however, it took over 60 years for historians to discover the impact Trump had on the singer-songwriter.

https://www.ranker.com/list/woody-guthrie-old-man-trump/mariel-loveland?ref=dshare&source=fbshare&

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Donald Trump's Dad Was So Racist That Woody Guthrie Wrote A Song...... (Original Post) Little Star May 2018 OP
most of us know this jodymarie aimee May 2018 #1
It's too bad most of the country doesn't. nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #2
Especially N.Y. ers marybourg May 2018 #3
Thanks for the post, Wellstone ruled May 2018 #6
Really? Most people know this? BlueWI May 2018 #7
The Trump family embodies the sense of white dominance and entitlement IluvPitties May 2018 #4
K&R UTUSN May 2018 #5
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Thanks for the post,
Sat May 5, 2018, 02:40 PM
May 2018

yes we older folks surly do. One of the first Songs Arlo did at a County Fair back in 1947.

BlueWI

(1,736 posts)
7. Really? Most people know this?
Sun May 6, 2018, 09:38 PM
May 2018

I knew about the KKK arrest and the racist housing policies but not the Woody Guthrie connection. It seems important enough to be repeated frequently to make sure it's all common knowledge.

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