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From the Rolling Stone Archive: January 22, 2016
In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed the lease for a new apartment in the New York district of Brooklyn. Now, more than half a century later, this contract causes a stir.
How will Kaufman, professor in American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire, In the event of research The man who wrote “This Land is Your Land” put his name next to that of Donald Trump’s father. At the time, Fred Trump had the residential building in which the folk musician lived for two years. That alone may not be worth mentioning, but that the relationship between Guthrie and his landlord was anything but rosy. At that time, Woody Guthrie described him as racists-even today, 65 years later, Fred’s son Donald Trump is also accused of stir up racism within the American society. Particularly strange: he even proudly emphasizes to continue the values conveyed by his father.
Guthrie noticed how people were marginalized in his apartment block due to their skin color – Trump did not accept black tenants. In Woody Guthrie’s diaries, writings were recently discovered on how he tried to stop the exclusion in order to create a heterogeneous community.
In a poem it says:
I Suppose
Old Man Trump Knows
Just how much
Racial hate
He Stirred Up
In the Bloodpot of Human Hearts
When hey drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen Hundred Family Project….
Another poem is:
Beach haven ain’t my home!
I just Cain’t Pay This Rent!
My Money’s Down the Drain!
And my soul is Badly Bent!
Beach Haven Looks Like Heaven
Where No Black Ones Come to Roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t My Home!
Donald Trump did not rest in his father’s medium-sized company, but began to build luxury buildings, hotels and golf courses. In 2015, however, he said in an interview with the “Washington Post“:” My legacy has its roots in my father’s legacy. ” Guthrie would therefore probably have despised the presidential candidate Trump for his aggressive attitude.