"Woody Guthrie, ‘Old Man Trump’ and a real estate empire’s racist foundations"

[$tevie]

For Guthrie, Fred Trump came to personify all the viciousness of the racist codes that continued to put decent housing – both public and private – out of reach for so many of his fellow citizens:

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project ....

https://theconversation.com/woody-guthri...ions-53026

[Bernie]

I clicked on the link. Nice read.

[btfc]

Yes, interesting, thanks!

[deckeda]

Interesting read, thanks. Seems Daddy set the bar for doing whatever he wanted.