Posted by: metta February 28, 2016
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Donald Trump denies knowing about KKK.
“If you need to do research on the K.K.K. before you can repudiate them, you are not ready or fit to be president,” said Joe Pounder, a spokesman for Mr. Rubio.
Mr. Cruz wrote in a tweet that the situation was “sad.”
“You’re better than this,” Mr. Cruz said, addressing Mr. Trump. “We should all agree, racism is wrong, K.K.K. is abhorrent.”
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/donald-trump-declines-to-disavow-david-duke/?_r=0
1927 news report: Donald Trump's dad arrested in KKK brawl with cops
If the man arrested at the riotous Klan parade was indeed Donald's father, it would not be his last tangle with the law over issues concerning minorities. A 1979 article, published by Village Voice, reported on a civil rights suit that alleged that the Trumps refused to rent to black home-seekers, and quotes a rental agent who said Fred Trump instructed him not to rent to blacks and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. The case was settled in a 1975 consent degree described as "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated," but the Justice Department subsequently complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."
Donald Trump has made nativism a pillar of his campaign, describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and two Boston men who beat a homeless immigrant as "passionate" fans.
The events described in the Times' article took place 22 years before Donald Trump was even born, and he’s not responsible for any youthful sins his father may have committed. But given the racially-charged tone of the younger Trump's campaign, it raises questions about the values he was taught by the man whose fortune he inherited.
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/09/1927-news-report-donald-trump.html