Trump and Race

[ClydeR]

An article in the Washington Post yesterday raised issues about Trump's positions on race, citing as examples a racial bias case against Trump's company, an alleged racist quote in a book written by a former employee, the Central Park Five case, and Trump's interview about affirmative action. There is a ready answer to each of those issues. I'll summarize them. He didn't do it. He didn't say it. You're misremembering it. You're misinterpreting it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...583_story.html

The Central Park Five case is the most interesting. The book by a former employee would be the most explosive, if true.

[Wrathbringer]

An article in the Washington Post yesterday raised issues about Trump's positions on race, citing as examples a racial bias case against Trump's company, an alleged racist quote in a book written by a former employee, the Central Park Five case, and Trump's interview about affirmative action. There is a ready answer to each of those issues. I'll summarize them. He didn't do it. He didn't say it. You're misremembering it. You're misinterpreting it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...583_story.html

The Central Park Five case is the most interesting. The book by a former employee would be the most explosive, if true.

I'm good with all of it. After all the boons for the gays, blacks and mexicans over the past 8 years, it's about time the white man got a little love from government.

[ClydeR]

The Central Park Five case is the most interesting.

For unfathomable reasons, Trump is defending his statements from 25 years ago about the Central Park Five.

The viciousness of the crime, which came in the midst of New York's crack epidemic and a spiraling crime rate, coupled with the fact that the victim was white and four of the suspects were black and one was Latino, added to the city's racial tensions.

Two weeks after the attack, Donald Trump took out full-page ads in four of the city's newspapers with the blaring headline, "Bring Back The Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!"

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There were no witnesses to the attack. The victim had no memory of it, and DNA evidence was in its infancy and was not presented at the trial. The five youths were convicted almost exclusively on their confessions, which they testified were coerced by detectives.

In 2002, another man, a convicted rapist and murderer, confessed to the assault, and his DNA did match semen that was found on the victim. No DNA evidence has been found to tie any of the Central Park 5 to the crime.

The Central Park 5 were exonerated, and in 2014, New York paid them a $41 million settlement.

But Trump still is not buying their innocence.

"They admitted they were guilty," Trump said this week in a statement to CNN's Miguel Marquez. "The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."

Since Trump obviously still believes that the Central Park 5 are guilty, it cannot be said he is lying or even misleading. But he is undoubtedly holding steadfast to an opinion in the face of DNA evidence to the contrary and the fact that the Central Park 5 have been exonerated by the legal system.