@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:
Nice defense of a Trump supporter who said it was okay for Trump not to rent apartments to blacks because a lot of people don't like blacks, so it could hurt his business.
The idea that a black person should have the right to find a place to live like anyone else does not make it onto your mental radar.
There are two reasons why a landlord would not rent to blacks:
1) The landlord is a bigot.
2) Black people, in general, are poor risk tenants.
Even assuming #2 can be proven to be true, it doesn't excuse discrimination on the basis of race because there are other ways to determine if a person is a high-risk tenant (credit checks for one) and it is unfair to assume that every black person attempting to rent a place in the building fits the general profile, however it is not indicative of racism. Over-reliance on anecdotal experience, but not, necessarily, racism.
Wait...the poster (whom you seem to find so deplorable) made me realize there might be a third reason
3) There are a lot of white racist tenants in the building and they might leave if a unit was rented to a black person.
Cowardly perhaps but not racist. Not standing up to racists, doesn't make you a racist.
So it's entirely possible that Trump's father was making a business decision. Perhaps a crass and ill-informed decision, but not proof of racism.
