In the summer of 1972, Hillary Rodham walked into Dothan Alabama’s private academy. The future Mrs. Clinton was working for civil rights activist Marian Edelman; her assignment was to prove that southern private schools were discriminating based on race while profiting illegally from tax-exempt status. In rural Alabama, this was dangerous work and took courage. But Rodham learned that white-only academies were draining desegregated public schools of books and equipment.
During that same summer of 1972, a black woman entered Donald Trump’s Brooklyn complex and asked to rent an apartment. She was told nothing was available. A white woman who followed with the same request was invited to choose between two available units.
After the New York City Commission on Human Rights had received many discrimination complaints, the two would-be renters were government sanctioned undercover testers. Following this, the Justice Department filed a civil rights case that accused Trump’s firm of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Federal investigators had gathered evidence that Trump employees were secretly marking the applications of minorities with the code “C” for colored. Also, two former Trump employees were quoted in court documents as saying “a racial code was in effect.”
A racist can’t make America great.
