Trump on Slavery

[brettdale]

“President Joe Biden and every living President-except Donald Trump - are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and - through his white mother’s side - Barack Obama…” Reuters. I hope that every African American in our Country is reading this right now. REMEMBER!

[wnylib]

1. I"m missing something here.

Are you saying that those presidents are at fault for what people they never knew, or even knew about, did before they were born?

[canetoad]

2. So says

The son of a klansman.

[Jarqui]

4. +1

Report: Trump’s Dad Was Arrested In 1927 Ku Klux Klan Brawl With Police
https://blackpressusa.com/report-trumps-dad-was-arrested-in-1927-ku-klux-klan-brawl-with-police/

No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

But an investigation by The New York Times — drawing on decades-old files from the New York City Commission on Human Rights, internal Justice Department records, court documents and interviews with tenants, civil rights activists and prosecutors — uncovered a long history of racial bias at his family’s properties, in New York and beyond.

FBI releases files on Trump apartments' race discrimination probe in '70s
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067

Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for Death Penalty Over Central Park Five
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/nyregion/central-park-five-trump.html

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020
Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s “the least racist person.” His history suggests otherwise.
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history

[Johonny]

5. He wanted the central park 5 executed

[RockRaven]

3. His draft dodging grandfather (and wife) immigrated long after slavery was abolished.

And his father married a Scottish woman who herself was an immigrant, IIRC.

There's no familial virtue to be had there, just recent immigrants.