Mother Jones: Black Employees at a Trump Casino Were Reportedly Removed Whenever the Donald Arrived

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http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/08/trump-casinos-black-employees

Black Employees at a Trump Casino Were Reportedly Removed Whenever the Donald Arrived
—Inae Oh on Mon. August 31, 2015 11:03 AM PDT

It was only recently that Republican presidential candidate and front-runner Donald Trump said he'd be willing to physically fight Black Lives Matter activists if they interrupted him on stage. Now, a new report from the New Yorker relays an alarming account of how black employees at one of Donald Trump's Atlantic City properties were routinely kept from view when the real estate magnate came to town. From writer Nick Paumgarten:

I met a bus driver named Kip Brown, who worked the Port Authority route, up and back each morning, for Academy Bus Lines. He had been at Academy for fifteen years and was No. 3 in seniority, out of seventy drivers in the region. As ridership has fallen, Academy has been cutting back on its schedule. The number of visitors arriving by bus is an eighth of what it was a quarter century ago. In the spring, Brown, just forty-seven, retired.

Now he was looking for work as a livery driver. Brown also used to work in the casinos, at the Showboat, bussing tables, and at Trump’s Castle, stripping and waxing floors. "When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor," he said. "It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back."

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. The article is really short

I also went to the Gawker link the author provided - just a list of quotes.

Is there a deeper dive on this?

[name not needed]

7. Gawker's not big on sources.

I'm inclined to wait until something concrete comes out. I know a few people who work or have worked over at his golf course in Bedminster, and have heard nothing of the sort. Asshole? yes. Racist? Most likely. "Get the blacks out of there before I arrive?" We'll see.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I've played golf there

I didn't feel uncomfortable or unwelcome.

I tend to think that if your money is green or you can make Trump money - his racism goes right out the window.

[qwlauren35]

2. Important to note - 1980. That's 30 years ago.

The title makes it sound recent. Inflammatory journalism.

[SalviaBlue]

4. In the 80's it would still be an outrage.

That was not that long ago. If this is real, it should disqualify him from being the president.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Yes, it should. No other option. A president is supposed to serve the ENTIRE population,

not just the few pasty white, glow in the dark greed-driven a-holes like Trump's world.

To have maintained that policy toward black U.S. Americans, his OWN employees, is unforgiveable.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Yeah, 1980 was right smack dabb in the middle of Jim Crow. nt

[Duppers]

10. "Inflammatory journalism" LOL!

Your post sounds sympathetic to Trump.
Sniff.

[olddots]

12. are you on the right site ?

[Vinca]

3. . . . and the Donald's poll numbers climb another 10 points!

I'm sure he's totally locked up the David Duke followers now.

[Octafish]

9. The more one learns about Donald, the more NAZI he becomes.

It's like he's royalty in his own mind, a real super-duper supermensch.

[jmowreader]

11. Hmmm...

Anyone know if there are any BLM activists who are also pro fighters? It's not assault to beat Donald Trump to a bloody pulp if he throws the first punch.