"What The Hell Do You Have To Lose?" Hey, Donald, the Central Park Five have an answer!

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The Central Park Five Ad Told Us Who Donald Trump Really Is
http://www.mtv.com/news/2922644/the-central-park-five-ad-told-us-who-donald-trump-really-is/

Donald Trump Is Rallying A Lynch Mob. He's Done It Before, With The Central Park Five
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/11/1559052/-Donald-Trump-is-rallying-a-lynch-mob-He-s-done-it-before

Sen. Sessions: Trump Urging Death Penalty for Innocent Teens Shows He Cared About ‘Law and Order’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/sen-sessions-trump-urging-death-penalty-for-innocent-teens-shows-he-cared-about-law-and-order/


(cross posted http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512385940)

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1. Trump’s ad inflamed racist hate all over the city of New York

and led to many family members of the “Central Park 5” being subjected to death threats, racial slurs, discrimination.

The “Central Park 5” were found guilty in court.

But, in 2002 it was found they were innocent:

In 2002, after Salaam had served seven years in prison, Matias Reyes, a violent serial rapist and murderer already serving life inside, came forward and confessed to the Central Park rape. He stated that he had acted by himself. A re-examination of DNA evidence proved it was his semen alone found on Meili’s body, and just before Christmas that year, the convictions against each member of the Central Park Five were vacated by New York’s supreme court.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/20/1562152/-It-s-hard-to-imagine-a-much-worse-pitch-Donald-Trump-could-have-made-for-the-black-vote

[JI7]

2. that's why scumbags like rudy giuliani support trump

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3. this ...

[malaise]

4. Don the Con

is a racist

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5. Trump needs to be confronted about his past

Not just about the Central Park Five, but also the federal housing discrimination suits brought against him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to African-Americans.

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6. ...

[Stuart G]

7. GREAT POST... thank you very much ...k and r.

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8. you're welcome Stuart

I'm so pissed. The media has been derelict in not covering the incident and confronting Trump on his past.

Trump is asking African-Americans what they have to lose if they vote for him.

This story answers that question: Your Life!

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9. Yusef Salaam, one of the "Central Park Five," on Trump becoming president ...

Salaam, who said he had been scarred for life by his experiences in prison, also felt insulted. But it was the announcement last June that Trump had finally decided to run for president that was, in a way, more alarming.

“To see that he has not changed his position of being a hateful person, to see that he has not changed his position of inciting people, to see that he’s still the same person and in many ways he has perfected his sense of being that number-one inciter, you know, I was scared,” Salaam said.

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“I thought for a moment: What would this country look like with Donald Trump as being a president? That’s a scary thing,” Salaam said. “That’s a very scary thing.”

read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york

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11. Yes, a very scary thing Salaam.

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12. Salaam nails it ...

“Had this been the 1950s, that sick type of justice that they wanted – somebody from that darker place of society would have most certainly came to our homes, dragged us from our beds and hung us from trees in Central Park. It would have been similar to what they did to Emmett Till,” Salaam said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york

This what is what Trump and his supporters mean by "taking the country back." Back to the '50s!

[salin]

10. Powerful video

Great post!

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13. thank you salin

I wish the media would cover the incident and ask Trump if he has any "regrets" about the fear and racial hatred he stirred up back then.

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14. the man has no regrets ... and no shame

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15. Trump refers to Central Park Five as THUGS ...

racist POS Trump

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16. the biggest thing about this is even AFTER they were exonerated over dna evidence he still attacked

them and resented their getting anything. even if they had years taken from them by being in prison for something they didn't do.

THAT'S the thing that stands out the most and i wish the fucked up media would bring it up.

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17. yes, just a couple of years ago he called them thugs

The media has failed to cover the story of how he stirred up fear and racial animus in 1989. They have failed to confront Trump on his past.

And here he is, day after day, asking African-Americans, "What the hell do you have to lose voting for me?"

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18. K&R...

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19. thank you spanone

I can't believe this story isn't getting more attention.

thanks for kicking and recommending