August 11, 2015
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Donald Trump, who was banned from last weekend’s RedState gathering in Atlanta because of sexist comments he made to Fox News’s Megyn Kelly during Thursday’s Republican debate in Cleveland, has made even nastier comments about black men with very little national blow back.
In 1989, after a woman jogger was brutally attacked in Central Park, Trump placed full-page ads in The New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Post and New York Newsday, calling for New York to “Bring Back the Death Penalty” and for New York City to “Bring Back Our Police.” Trump, a billionaire businessman and television personality, paid $85,000 for the ads.
Police arrested five teenagers —four blacks and one Hispanic —claiming they confessed to the high-profile crime which occurred on April 19, 1989. Newspapers and television stations labeled them The Central Park Five.
When DNA evidence and a confession by the actual perpetrator cleared the Central Park Five in 2002 after they had served lengthy prison sentences for a crime they didn’t commit, NYC agreed to pay the teenagers, who are now men, a settlement of $40 million in 2014.
The agreement made Trump even more irate.
“My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park jogger case is that it’s a disgrace,” said Trump adding that the settlement was a waste of taxpayer money.
Trump’s biggest target, however, has been President Barack Obama, the first African-American man elected Commander in Chief.
Trump, a birther, charged that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States; therefore, he couldn’t be president. Trump’s persistent and baseless accusations were an attempt to discredit Obama fundamentally; they were reminiscent of post-Reconstruction America when black men were required to carry and present on demand identification papers.
Eventually Obama, who was born in Hawaii, produced his birth certificate, and Trump started slamming others.
As of last week, several polls had Trump leading the race for the Republican nomination for president.