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For a guy who is allegedly such a racist, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump sure has a knack for standing up for minorities — namely Jews and blacks, in this case.
Trump filed a lawsuit 20 years ago against the city of Palm Beach, Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his recently purchased Mar-a-Lago resort club because it was open to Jews and blacks alike, according to a piece published in The Wall Street Journal a year later.
Moreover, the piece quoted the Anti-Defamation League’s then-Director Abraham Foxman as having said this about Trump’s suit: “He put the light on Palm Beach — not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination.”
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“In other words, long before he was running for president, there was Donald Trump battling racism and anti-Semitism in Palm Beach society,” Jeffrey Lord added in a piece he recently penned for The American Spectator.
When Trump Fought the Racists – https://t.co/Q2u4Sre6ox
— Tea Party (@TeaPartyOrg) July 5, 2016
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During the whole clash between Trump and the town of Palm Beach, the now-presumptive GOP nominee also sent the city council a copy of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” a classic 1967 comedy that dealt with controversial subjects such as interracial marriage and racial discrimination.
Suits and actions like this might seem small to the contemporary small-minded liberal, but they in reality had a huge impact.
Foxman explained to The Journal that following the whole affair, the league began receiving calls from Jewish residents claiming that the clubs in Palm Beach were finally beginning to change.
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“Locals concur that in the past year, organizations such as the Bath and Tennis Club have begun to admit Jewish patrons,” The Journal wrote. “The Palm Beach Civic Association, which for many years was believed to engage in discriminatory behavior, this month named a Jewish resident as its chief officer.”
The same occurred with regard to the city’s black residents — because of the very man whom modern liberals love to castigate as nothing more than a bigot and racist.
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