Today, Donald Trump continues to claim ignorance with regard to the harm caused by white supremacy movements.
YouTubeBrooklyn Daily Eaglecoverage of the 1927 Ku Klux Klan march in Queens .
After the violence that fall out this weekend — during which more than 30 people were injured and three were killed at a white-hot supremacist mass meeting in Charlottesville , Virginia — Donald Trump made a statement that mass on both side of the political spectrum took proceeds with :
“ We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred , bigotry and fierceness on many sides , ” he said . “ On many side of meat . ”
YouTubeBrooklyn Daily Eaglecoverage of the 1927 Ku Klux Klan march in Queens.
He failed to mention the hatred groups responsible for the rally ( which was initially spurred in response to theremoval of Confederate statues ) or to explicitly denounce their message of racial discrimination .
His comment on there being “ many sides ” that needed condemning , suggests that people other than the hate group were somehow at demerit in all of this .
“ ‘ Many sides ’ suggests that there is no right side or wrong side , that all are virtuously adequate , ” Senator Kamala Harris wrote in aFacebook post . “ But I refuse that . It ’s not hard to spot the wrong side here . They ’re the ones with the torches and the swastikas . ”
Dennis Caruso/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesDonald Trump and father Fred Trump in New York. 1987.
This is really not the first time that the Trump name has been in the news in connectedness with a blank supremacist exchange . For that , we have to go back 90 year .
Dennis Caruso / NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesDonald Trump and forefather Fred Trump in New York . 1987 .
Trump ’s father , Fred Trump , was cop at a Ku Klux Klan exchange in New York on Memorial Day 1927 .
On that day , approximately 1,000 white - robed Klansmen march through Queens in opposition to Roman Catholic law .
“ Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon when native - born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag , the American sword lily ; one school , the public school ; and one language , the English words , ” a flier for the event show .
Fred Trump , who was 23 at the time , was list as one of the seven men arrested at the rally byThe New York Times :
The newsprint ’s reporting of the arrests said that Trump lived at 175 - 24 Devonshire Road , Jamaica — an address where the 1930 Census confirmed that Fred Trump Sr . lived with his mother .
The paper did n’t elucidate what persona Trump had been play in the bacchanal , but says he was detained “ on a charge of refusing to pass around from a parade when ordered to do so . ” Trump was , however , the only soul arrest who did not end up being excite with a crime .
When Donald Trump was face with this selective information during his presidential campaign , he chose to deny the fact of the site rather than acknowledge what had happened and explicitly condemn the KKK .
“ He was never catch , ” Donald Trump told theDaily Mailin 2015 . “ He has nothing to do with this . This never happened . This is nonsensicality and it never happened . This never happen . Never take place . He was never halt , never convicted , never even charged . It ’s a completely false , ridiculous story . He was never there ! It never befall . Never took place . ”
Similarly , Donald Trump failed to acknowledge the support of Klan leader David Duke in 2016 .
“ I do n’t know anything about David Duke , okay , ” Trump said . “ I do n’t sleep together anything about what you ’re even talking about with blank supremacy or lily-white supremacists . I do n’t know , did he indorse me ? Or what ’s going on . Because I know nothing about David Duke . I make out nothing about white supremacists . ”
This was a Trygve Lie , dedicate that Trump had mentioned Duke , a nationally famous figure , by name in the past .
He had another chance to condemn Duke ’s platform this weekend — which he did not take .
“ This represents a turn point for the people of this land , ” Duke say in a television uploaded to Twitter byIndianapolis StarphotojournalistMykal McEldowney . “ We are determined to take our country back . We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump . That ’s what we believed in , that ’s why we voted for Donald Trump . Because he allege he ’s going to take our country back . That ’s what we puzzle ta do . ”
If Donald Trump still “ have it off nothing ” about white supremacists , it ’s probably meter he started learning .
Next , take a expression at thesedisturbing historic photo that divulge what it ’s like to arise up in the KKK . Then see howa black man win over 200 racialist to leave the KKK by befriending them .
