DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

This shit is important because it can give you white folks another glimpse of the mindset of some of us Black folk in the African American community. Especially as it relates to your hero… Donald J Trump.  
I know it’s been a good long while since we had an honest and open conversation. I can’t say that I speak for every one of my peeps, because we don’t all agree…just as we all know not every white person thinks or believes the same. But before the shit goes too much further and get too much worse, we need to talk dammit!! Seriously talk. Not at each other, not about each other from another room, but to each other. Yep!
First: Let’s get to brass tacks about this Trump dude.
He says he wants to make things better for all of us, which would be nice. However his track record is a bit fucked up. He once did some nice shit for Jesse Jackson. Okay, that’s cool. But he was also president of his father’s company when they were deliberately trying to get us BLACK people from living in their buildings. Yeah, sure motherfuckers, that was a long time ago. In the meantime there was the Central Park Five incident, when he called for the death penalty to be used on five innocent Black teenagers accused of a really brutal rape. That one still kinda fucks with me. He desegregated his exclusive Mar-a-Lago Club, but the truth ain’t that he did that for the benefit of us brothers and sisters and Jews who had been excluded from other clubs. He only did it to get back at the Palm Beach society, which looked down its nose at his punk ass! For a lot of longtime residents, Cheeto Trump’s decision to set up camp here was bad enough. That was in 1985, when Drumpf paid about $7 million for the 128-room Mar-a-Lago mansion, built 70 years ago by crazy cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Over the years, Ms. Post's party schedule had placed the estate smack dab middle in the center of Palm Beach social circles. By the time she died in 1973, it was a local institution.

 

Mr. Trump arrived well-known, though not necessarily well thought of. He brought with him a reputation as a real-estate developer accustomed to battling local residents. In the early 1990s, Drumpf found himself stuck in a costly divorce just as the real-estate markets began to slide. He talked shit openly about the $3 million a year in maintenance costs that the estate was costing him. He proposed subdividing the 17-acre property into smaller lots for residential development. Hummmmmmm………That set the stage for Drumpf’s first big battle with the Palm Beach leaders. The town, which years earlier had approved a subdivision proposal for the site from another developer, rejected Mr. Trump's plan, setting the stage for him to sue for $50 million. He dropped the suit when an idea emerged to turn the crib into a private club. The town council agreed to that shit, but placed restrictions on the club, such as allowing no more than 500 members. In the spring of 1995, the Mar-a-Lago Club officially opened, and is now charging $75,000 for membership, plus annual dues. 75,000……75,000……75,000

So here’s the shit: Mar-a-Lago wasn’t even a real club before Drumpf’s arrival, it was a private residence. It was a crib. Trump needed to make some cash real fast, so he tried to make it into 17 separate residential properties he could sell or lease, which the city council rejected. That’s when he decided to make it a private club with a $75,000 annual membership fee, like some of other local clubs.  Most of those clubs were segregated, his new club was not, and he used that fact as a way to cry that he was being discriminated against by the city. Whoa!!

After the council refused to lift the restrictions, Drumpf filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach, saying that the town was discriminating against Mar-a-Lago, in part because it is open to Jews and African-Americans. The suit seeks $100 million in damages. Even the Anti-Defamation League in New York, which in a 1994 battle forced Palm Beach's Sailfish Club to open up its membership, was concerned that Drumpf was using the charge of anti-Semitism for his own monied ends. The league's national director, Abraham Foxman, met with Drumpf soon after to let out his concerns. According to Mr. Foxman, Drumpf agreed to modify his claims to allege only that the town council has treated Mar-a-Lago unfairly, compared with other clubs in town.

So just to set the motherfuckin record straight: He was in fact trying to get a better deal out of the Palm Beach City Council for his club, not doing anyone else a favor. However since then, generally speaking, he really hasn’t done anything else for us Black people. Not really. Not at all! But now he says he’s our only hope. Now he says only he can make things better for us. And he starts out by saying things have never been worse for us, “ever ever ever.” Do you understand why that’s not a comforting appeal? If not, I’ll let Don Lemon explain it for me. Thoughts?