Donald Trump and his father, Fred, in 1973 at Trump Village in New York City. Credit Barton Silverman/ The New York Times
[Nixon's Justice Department believed Trump's discriminatory housing practices up to 1973 were racist.
Trump's 'Central Park 5' position in 1989 fairly is seen by many as racist.
Trump's casinos reportedly put blacks in the back.]
[...]
In 1991, a book by John O’Donnell, who had been president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump as criticizing a black accountant and saying: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” O’Donnell wrote that for months afterward, Trump pressed him to fire the black accountant, until the man resigned of his own accord.
[to the end]
My view is that “racist” can be a loaded word, a conversation stopper more than a clarifier, and that we should be careful not to use it simply as an epithet. Moreover, Muslims and Latinos can be of any race, so some of those statements technically reflect not so much racism as bigotry. It’s also true that with any single statement, it is possible that Trump misspoke or was misconstrued.
And yet.
Here we have a man who for more than four decades has been repeatedly associated with racial discrimination or bigoted comments about minorities, some of them made on television for all to see. While any one episode may be ambiguous, what emerges over more than four decades is a narrative arc, a consistent pattern — and I don’t see what else to call it but racism.
Correction: July 25, 2016
An earlier version of a caption that accompanied a photo of Donald J. Trump and his father misidentified the borough where Trump Village is located. It is in Brooklyn, not Queens.
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