That’s a pretty unlikely group. What could they have in common? The day was October 27, 1986, and they were all honored by the Ellis Island Honors Society for different reasons, all centered around their ethnic origins, as a celebration of the American diversity symbolized by Ellis Island. Trump was chosen as a man of German heritage who benefited New York City as a developer.
An Oct. 16, 1986, New York Times article lists Trump as a recipient, with ‘German, developer’ alongside his name. ”
(Hillary Clinton has also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.)
Hilariously enough, a Facebook meme has claimed that the society was honoring Trump for his contributions to the black community! You can’t get much farther from the truth. In reality, the Trumps’ most significant contribution to the black community was to refuse to rent to them. An undercover government agent caught the Trumps red-handed in blatant discrimination. When cornered by the feds, Trump’s manager on the scene said, “I’m only doing what my boss told me to do — I am not allowed to rent to black tenants.”
Trump has disingenuously claimed that he settled the case for “zero with no admission of liability,” which conveniently twists the intent of the actual settlement, which read “without adjudication of the merit and without any admission as to the existence or absence of liability,” and which forced the Trump organization to jump through many hoops to prove that it intended to comply with the law. In layman’s terms, the ruling was “We won’t talk about the past at all. The important thing is that you do the following in the future.”
So it’s not likely that a guy caught red-handed practicing racist housing discrimination would be given an award for his progressive racial policies!
You don’t even know my issues, so I’m not sure where you get that information from. I see through most of the noise, and can’t help what the news and tech companies allow Trump to do with broadcasting his messaging.
Whenever Trump’s status becomes complacent, or he feels like he may be losing some edge, he’ll throw out some insulting or racist tweet that fires up his base, but leave him an out so say ‘oh, he didn’t say EXACTLY that.’
It’s like in boxing , the term ‘fighting in a phone booth. A much less technically sound boxer has a better shot against a better boxer, if you can get him to just stand and trade shots on pure power. That’s what Trump does, he brings it back to that emotional, anecdotal, tribalism shit that’s been the basis of billions of humanity dying throughout our history. Our nature is no better than ants.
Unfortunately, society as a whole has to learn the hard way. What we choose to believe and not believe, is usually based on convenience and not fact. You have anti-vaxxers out there, people who think the greenhouse effect isn’t real, and so on – things that should not even be political issues. To what end? A conspiracy against the goods of polio and smallpax? Or against the oil barons in OPEC and the Saudi royal family? You know, the same religion they’re trying to from a Congresswoman out for?
It makes literally no sense. What people choose to believe and not believe. They will rant about propaganda they’re exposed to, against an established fact, but have no problem flying in a plane, using a combustion engine, or trusting the architectural design of a large building not to fall on them.
How do you counter the complete nonacceptance of objective fact by people who do no research into anything? And then elect one, and give him a megaphone to control the messaging anyway he wants?
You do what you can as an individual and prepare for the mess in the years and decades ahead, is the only conclusion I’m coming to.
Brexit has worked out like a charm, and the riots and protests in France seem to be great.
Lets not pretend this is just an American problem, its a world problem. Authoritarianism and Nationalism has become an issue for everyone to worry about.
If the world keeps letting the nine figure and up hoarders manipulate society against one another, it won’t take very long before society is back to a World War climate.
Orange man bad, we get it.
You are right, Harry Bahls: “Orange man bad.” It cannot be repeated too often, because so many do not seem to know it.
Very, very bad….