.
Paramedics
tend to a protester who was stabbed during the KKK rally in Anaheim.
Many people at the park were demanding to know why police did not have a
larger presence at the scene before the violence broke out.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
A
protester lies on the ground after being stabbed in an altercation with
KKK members. Klansmen were once the dominant political force in
Anaheim, holding four of five City Council seats before a recall effort
led to their ouster in 1924.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
A
Ku Klux Klansman, left, struggles with a protester for an American flag
after members of the KKK tried to start a "White Lives Matter" rally at
Pearson Park in Anaheim on Saturday. Three people were treated at the
scene for stab wounds, and 13 people were arrested.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Night of the Walking Slime
Jennifer Lawrence on the red carpet: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 29 February 2016
"The Martian" actor Matt Damon on the red carpet: photo by Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times, 29 February 2016
Taylor Kinney, left, and Lady Gaga arrive at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles: photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated Press, 29 February 2016
"Titanic" costars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite on the red carpet: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 29 February 2016
Charlize Theron on the red carpet: photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times, 29 February 2016
Night of The Pretty Interesting Quotes Gathered by the Grandson of Friedrich Drumpf, Murikan Progenitor
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs
autographs for supporters at the conclusion of a rally at Millington
Regional Jetport on Saturday in Millington, Tenn.: photo by Michael B. Thomas/AFP via NPR, 28 February 2016
Trump Won't Condemn KKK, Says He 'Knows Nothing About White Supremacists': Camila Domonoske, NPR, 28 February 2016
On the Sunday morning talk shows, Republican presidential
front-runner Donald Trump refused to condemn endorsements from a
prominent white supremacist and former KKK leader, and said he retweeted
a Mussolini quote because "it's a very good quote."
The extended conversation about white supremacists came on CNN's State of the Union, where
Jake Tapper asked if Trump would distance himself from an endorsement
by David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke has told
his radio that voting against Trump would be "treason to your heritage."
Trump refused to condemn that endorsement or say he didn't want the support of white supremacists -- four times.
"I
don't know anything about David Duke. I don't know what you're even
talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. I don't know. I
don't know, did he endorse me, or what's going on?" he said. That
prompted a back-and-forth that went, in part:
Trump:
I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to
condemn a group that I know nothing about. ... If you would send me a
list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would
disavow them if I thought there was something wrong.
Tapper: The Ku Klux Klan?
Trump:
You may have groups in there that are totally fine and it would be very
unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know.
Tapper: I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here.
Trump: Honestly, I don't know David Duke.
As several people swiftly pointed out on Twitter, Trump hasn't always claimed ignorance of David Duke.
In
2000, when he ended his presidential campaign, Trump cited Duke's
participation in the Reform Party as one reason he no longer wanted the
party's nomination.
"The Reform Party now includes a Klansman,
Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Pat][ Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora]
Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep," he wrote in his statement.
And as recently as Friday, Trump had disavowed Duke endorsement,
without expressing any uncertainty about Duke's identity. On Sunday, he
didn't reference that statement or indicate he'd ever heard of Duke's
support for him.
On MSNBC, Chris Jansing spoke to Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., about his father's comments on State of the Union.
He
said he wasn't a campaign spokesman -- but as a spokesman for his
father, he was willing to say Trump's camp didn't want the support of a
former KKK leader.
"I'm pretty sure we're not interested in those kinds of votes," Trump Jr. said.
Also on the Sunday show circuit, on NBC's Meet the Press, Trump declined to distance himself from a Benito Mussolini quote he had retweeted.
Gawker has since posted
to announce that the account that first tweeted the quote -- unsubtly
named "@ilduce2016" -- was a bot they designed with the express purpose
of tricking Trump into retweeting a line from the fascist Italian
dictator.
And the ploy succeeded.
When Chuck Todd pointed out that "it is better to live one day as a
lion than 100 years as a sheep" is, indeed, a famous Mussolini quote,
and asked if Trump knew that, Trump said:
"It's OK to know it was Mussolini. Look, Mussolini was Mussolini. ... It's a very good quote. It's a very interesting quote."
When
Todd asked if Trump wanted to be associated with a fascist, Trump said,
"No, I want to be associated with interesting quotes."
He then pointed out he has millions of followers on social media, and that they appreciate his interesting posts.
"Hey, it got your attention, didn't it?" Trump said.
A
protester tries to tear off the shirt of a Ku Klux Klansman. Six Klan
members -- five men and one woman -- and seven protesters -– six men and
one woman -- were arrested after the fracas, an Anaheim Police
Department spokesman said.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
The Proud Heritage of Friedrich Drumpf, Murikan Progenitor
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 11h11hours ago
"@ilduce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain"
Ku Klux Klan members ride in an automobile advertising a lecture at the Anaheim Christian Tabernacle in 1915: photo courtesy of Anaheim Public Library via Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
WARREN
CRITICIZES 'CLASS' PARADES; Police Head Declares Neither Fascisti Nor
Klan Had Any Place in Memorial March. KLAN ASSAILS POLICEMEN No Progress
Made In Tracing the Slayers of Two Italians -- Seven Arraigned In
Queens Battle: The New York Times, 1 June 1927
[ DISPLAYING ABSTRACT ]
NYT June 01, 1927
Police Commissioner Warren announced yesterday that he was in favor
of fewer "extraneous" parades in this city. He made this known in
discussing the disorders incident to the Memorial parade when two
Fascisti were killed on their way to join a detachment of black shirts
in the Manhattan parade, and 1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a
free-for-all battle in Jamaica.
Maybe @realDonaldTrump inherited a lifetime #KKK membership from his Dad? @tedcruz @CNN: image via Scott Wooledge @Clarknt67, 28 February 2015 Brooklyn, NYx
1927 news report: Donald Trump's dad arrested in KKK brawl with cops: Matt Blum, Boing Boing, 9 September 2015
In an article subtitled "Klan assails policeman", Fred Trump is named in
among those taken in during a late May "battle" in which "1,000
Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all." At least two
officers were hurt during the event, after which the Klan's activities
were denounced by the city's Police Commissioner, Joseph A. Warren.
“The Klan not only wore gowns, but had hoods over their faces
almost completely hiding their identity,” Warren was quoted as saying in
the article, which goes on to identify seven men “arrested in the
near-riot of the parade.”
Named alongside Trump are John E Kapp and John Marcy (charged
with felonious assault in the attack on Patrolman William O'Neill and
Sgt. William Lockyear), Fred Lyons, Thomas Caroll, Thomas Erwin, and
Harry J Free. They were arraigned in Jamaica, N.Y. All seven were
represented by the same lawyers, according to the article.
The final entry on the list reads: “Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica, was discharged.”
In 1927, Donald Trump's father would have been 21 years old, and
not yet a well-known figure. Multiple sources report his residence at
the time -- and throughout his life -- at the same address.
To be clear, this is not proof that Trump senior -- who would later
go on to become a millionaire real estate developer -- was a member of the
Ku Klux Klan or even in attendance at the event. Despite sharing lawyers
with the other men, it's conceivable that he may have been an innocent
bystander, falsely named, or otherwise the victim of mistaken identity
during or following a chaotic event.
The name of Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, was anglicized
to Frederick Trump, but he died several years before the report.
A person answering calls at the N.Y.C. Police Department's
Records Section said that arrest reports dating that far back were not
available in any form. We've sent a formal request in writing and will
update if and when we receive a response. We've also left a message with
the Trump Campaign requesting a callback.
The article, published on June 1, 1927, describes police
frustration at rowdy parades, the Klan's use of masks, and its growing
presence in New York City. The Klan, originally founded in the 19th
century, was reborn in 1915 as a violent supremacist organization
associated with lynchings, white nationalism, and the distinctive white
robes and hoods used by Klansmen to conceal their identity at parades
and other events. At its mid-1920s peak, it had up to 6m members,
according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Fred Trump, who died in 1999, was a New York real estate
developer and the father of mogul and presidential candidate Donald
Trump. Born in the Bronx to German immigrants, Fred became a real estate
developer in his teens; at about the time of his apparent arrest, he
was constructing single-family houses in Queens, according to his obituary in the Times.
At his death, his net worth was estimated at between $250m and $300m. A
savvy businessman and real estate developer, his wealth enabled the
junior Trump to start big.
If the man arrested at the riotous Klan parade was indeed
Donald's father, it would not be his last tangle with the law over
issues concerning minorities. A 1979 article, published by Village
Voice, reported on a civil rights suit
that alleged that the Trumps refused to rent to black home-seekers, and
quotes a rental agent who said Fred Trump instructed him not to rent to
blacks and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. The case was
settled in a 1975 consent degree described as "one of the most
far-reaching ever negotiated," but the Justice Department subsequently
complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump
agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a
substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."
Donald
Trump has made nativism a pillar of his campaign, describing Mexican
immigrants as rapists and two Boston men who beat a homeless immigrant
as "passionate" fans.
The events described in the Times' article took place 22 years
before Donald Trump was even born, and he’s not responsible for any
youthful sins his father may have committed. But given the
racially-charged tone of the younger Trump's campaign, it raises
questions about the values he was taught by the man whose fortune he
inherited.
According to a New York Times article published in June
1927, a man with the name and address of Donald Trump's father was
arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y.: image via Boing Boing / The New York Times
A Ku Klux Klan member fought a protester for an American flag in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday: photo by
Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times, via Associated Press, 27 February 2016
Protesters
taunt an injured Ku Klux Klansman after members of the KKK tried to
start a "White Lives Matter" rally at Pearson Park in Anaheim. Witnesses
said the Klansmen used the point of a flagpole as a weapon while
fighting with protesters.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
People asking where #Anaheim police department was during #KKK stabbing, forgetting many were there wearing hoods...: image via immigrant @shushugah, 28 February 2016
No human being is "illegal" /
Ningún ser humano es "ilegal": JORGE RAMOS @jorgeramosnews, 26 August 2015
Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, asks Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump a question about his immigration
proposal during a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque,
Iowa. Ramos was later taken from the room: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
Trumplandia: Jorge Ramos Avalos, Univision, 26 Agosto 2015
Vamos a imaginarnos el país que
quisiera Donald Trump. Trumplandia tendría un gran muro de 1,954 millas
en la frontera con México. En una gigantesca operación de limpieza
migratoria deportaría a más de 11 millones de indocumentados. Sus hijos
nacidos en Estados Unidos no tendrían pasaporte ni país y,
eventualmente, también serían deportados. Así, y solo así, Estados
Unidos volvería a ser una gran nación.
Esa es la utopía que Donald Trump le
está vendiendo a los norteamericanos. Pero esa utopía es una mentira.
Los indocumentados no son responsables de los principales problemas del
país. Lo que Trump propone es imposible de lograr. Trumplandia sería
como una muy mala y tenebrosa película de ciencia ficción.
Para que Trumplandia se quedara sin
indocumentados primero tendría que vivir el terror. Imagínense el
horror de detener en casas, trabajos y escuelas a millones de hombres,
mujeres y niños. Para lograr eso a corto plazo sería necesario usar al
ejército, a la policía y a todos los agentes del servicio de
inmigración. Las cortes quedarían paralizadas, desbordadas y habría
violaciones masivas a los derechos humanos.
Tras las brutales redadas, sería
necesario detener en estadios o en enormes lugares públicos a los
indocumentados para luego ser deportados en autobuses –- a México -- y en
aviones al resto del mundo. ¿El costo? Unos $137,000 millones de
dólares, es decir, $12,500 dólares por inmigrante, según un cálculo de
ICE. Los $10,000 millones de dólares que Trump dice tener no alcanzarían
ni siquiera para deportar a un millón de personas.
Si Trumplandia cambiara la Enmienda
14 de la constitución y le quitara la ciudadanía a los hijos de
indocumentados nacidos en Estados Unidos, primero tendría que deportar a
4.5 millones de esos niños que ya viven en el país. Pero ¿a qué país?
Si el papá es de México y la mamá de Honduras ¿a dónde se envía un niño
sin patria y sin pasaporte?
¿Qué pasaría con las madres
indocumentadas después de dar a luz y con sus bebés? Sería patético
meterse en el terrible e inhumano negocio de deportar bebés, niños y
estudiantes.
El problema de Trumplandia,
claramente, es con los mexicanos, no con los canadienses. Por eso Trump
construiría un muro para separar a Estados Unidos de México. Pero, en
cambio, no tocaría la frontera más grande del mundo, la que comparte por
5,525 millas con Canadá.
Construir muros es un mal negocio:
cuestan mucho y no sirven. Cada milla cuesta, al menos, $16 millones de
dólares (según reportó el NYT). De las 1,954 millas de frontera, ya hay
muros, bardas y vallas en 670 millas. Pero en 1,284 millas no hay nada.
Poner ahí un muro costaría, al menos, $20 mil millones de dólares. La
fortuna de Trump alcanzaría solo para la mitad.
Pero construir ese muro sería una
increíble pérdida de tiempo y dinero. Casi 40 por ciento de los
indocumentados que entra a Estados Unidos lo hace por avión y,
simplemente, se queda más allá del límite de sus visas. Eso no lo
detiene ningún muro. Además, el muro es innecesario. La frontera sur
está más segura que nunca -el número de indocumentados bajó de 12.2
millones en 2007 a 11.3 en el 2014- y tiene más de 20,000 agentes
patrullándola. De hecho ya en el 2013 entraron a Estados Unidos más
inmigrantes de China (147,000) que de México (125,000), según reportó el
WSJ. ¿Qué piensa hacer Trump al respecto: construir otra muralla china?
Trump se equivoca. México no es
parte de ninguna conspiración para enviar criminales y violadores a
Estados Unidos. De hecho, su gobierno está bastante ocupado lidiando con
sus propios problemas como el escape de El Chapo, la narcoviolencia,
varios casos de corrupción y la acelerada devaluación del peso. Y es
importante aclararlo: la mayor parte de los inmigrantes que vienen de
México no son delincuentes. Todos los estudios coinciden en que los
niveles de criminalidad entre los inmigrantes son menores que entre los
nacidos en Estados Unidos. Punto.
Trumplandia –- esa utopía llena de
muros y de odio contra los inmigrantes -- no es el Estados Unidos que yo
conozco. Trumplandia sería el reino de la intolerancia, la xenofobia y
la división.
Las grandes naciones se definen, no
por la manera en que tratan a los ricos y a los poderosos, sino por la
forma en que cuidan de los más vulnerables. Hoy, en Estados Unidos, los
indocumentados y sus hijos son los más vulnerables. Y Trump decidió ir
contra ellos.
Trumplandia es el horror.
A security guard for Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump removes Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos from a news
conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos stood up and
began to ask Trump about his immigration proposal: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
A security guard for Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump removes Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, from a
news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos stood up and
began to ask Trump about his immigration proposal: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
In Trumplandia
A
Ku Klux Klansman is subdued and handcuffed. All of the 13 people
arrested could face charges of assault with a deadly weapon, though a
police spokesman said “some people could have a self-defense claim.”: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Protesters
scuffle with a Ku Klux Klansman after members of the KKK tried to start
a "White Lives Matter" rally at Pearson Park in Anaheim. The event
quickly escalated into violence.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
A
Ku Klux Klansman is kicked in the face by an angry protester after
members of the KKK tried to start a "White Lives Matter" rally at
Pearson Park in Anaheim: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
