Donald Trump Desegregated Palm Beach Country Clubs In The 1990s

Andrew Mark Miller

Democrats love to talk about how racist Donald Trump is.

The only problem is that it’s completely made up.

There are plenty of areas where it is legitimate to disagree with Trump.

Calling him a racist is not one of those areas because it literally has no connection to reality.

Here’s one of the many examples.

Donald Trump opened a beach club in Palm Beach, Florida and apparently there were some restrictions put in place by the city.

There were also some racist practices in place. Here’s what he did next.

From The Daily Caller:

Palm Beach had only agreed to Trump’s plan after placing “restrictions on the club, such as allowing no more than 500 members, to allay residents’ fears about traffic congestion and noise,” the Wall Street Journal’s Jacqueline Bueno reported in 1997.

“This was a very graceful senior-citizen market,” Sheeran said of Palm Beach. “It was nice, clean people. Now, you have a lot of junk-bond money. The quality of the money is not pure,” he added, referencing the period of economic and ethnic diversity Palm Beach was experiencing.

Trump abided by the town’s membership restrictions for just over a year.

Then this happened:
The culture clash began to approach a climax last fall, when Mr. Trump’s lawyer sent members of the town council a copy of the film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” a film that deals with upper-class racism. Mr. Trump then approached the town council about lifting the restrictions that had been placed on the club. He also asked some council members not to vote on the request because their membership in other clubs created a conflict of interest.

Last December, after the council refused to lift the restrictions, Mr. Trump filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach, alleging 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.

Palm Beach and the competing clubs vehemently denied the charges of racism and anti-Semitism, and though Trump eventually retracted the claim — instead alleging “only that the town council has treated Mar-a-Lago unfairly, compared with other clubs in town” — the Anti-Defamation League praised his actions for “elevating the issue of discriminatory policies at social clubs.

“He put the light on Palm Beach,” then ADL national director Abraham Foxman said after meeting with Trump on the issue. “Not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. It has an impact.”

In other words, Trump forced Palm Beach clubs to desegregate.

Still don’t believe me?

Let’s ask Jesse Jackson.

Well that’s weird!

I mean seriously guys.

Let’s just not knock it off with all the racism stuff.

Being tough on immigration isn’t racist and you really look silly trying to pretend that it is.

http://www.youngcons.com/trump-desegregated-palm-beach-country-clubs-in-the-1990s/