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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on January 24, 2016, 11:54:24 AM

Title: The rymes of history
Post by: Plane on January 24, 2016, 11:54:24 AM

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/22/464013683/aint-got-no-home-why-woody-guthrie-despised-donald-trumps-father

Title: Re: The rymes of history
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on January 27, 2016, 11:57:18 AM

I am on Woody's side in this one.

Fred Trump was just a typical real estate shyster. He was no different than others.

Title: Re: The rymes of history
Post by: Plane on January 27, 2016, 08:41:05 PM

   In those days , was greenlining universal or common or systematic or ,sporadic?

Title: Re: The rymes of history
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on January 28, 2016, 12:13:38 AM

I do not know what you mean by greenlining.
Redlining was the practice of not granting mortgages to black people in certain neighborhoods.

What Fred Trump was guilty of was obligatory racial covenants.

Title: Re: The rymes of history
Post by: Plane on January 28, 2016, 04:53:02 AM

  Yes , same thing.

Title: Re: The rymes of history
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on January 28, 2016, 10:10:20 AM

In Miami for a long time, restrictive covenants were used to prevent Jews as well as Blacks and others from buying property.

Title: Re: The rymes of history
Post by: Plane on January 30, 2016, 12:34:36 PM

  Yes Segregation was in many instances enforced by banks and real estate companies.