‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias

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She seemed like the model tenant. A 33-year-old nurse who was living at the Y.W.C.A. in Harlem, she had come to rent a one-bedroom at the still-unfinished Wilshire Apartments in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. She filled out what the rental agent remembers as a “beautiful application.” She did not even want to look at the unit.

There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black.

Stanley Leibowitz, the rental agent, talked to his boss, Fred C. Trump

When it was over, Mr. Trump declared victory, emphasizing that the consent decree he ultimately signed did not include an admission of guilt.

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

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1. yep ...

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2. I have

I have to admit, that is pretty tolerant of Trump as I would expect them to have a sheet marked, n.

This guy is a major candidate, shudder?

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3. Trump and his father ...

https://www.facebook.com/LiberalLicious

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4. "Donald Trump's very first appearance in The New York Times"

https://twitter.com/GynoStar/status/768489753494757376

https://www.facebook.com/beingliberal.org/photos/a.180479986274.135777.177486166274/10153918887251275/

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5. Robert Bork the well known lefty, was the US AG when tRump was accused of the above.

YES, THAT ROBERT BORK!!!!

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