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In short, the large “Trump Village” complex appears in the photos to be well-built, well-located and well-landscaped and far from ever being considered a “slum.”[/quote]
Do you think one photograph today of a trump building, built decades ago, is proof that he wasn’t a slum-lord? Fred Trump was a racist slum-lord. This idea isn’t a current invention. Woody Guthrie wrote about it more than 60 years ago.[/quote]sk, I’ve seen “tenement slums” in my life …. many times. I’ve seen them in Denver (they were starting to clear them out due to an “urban renewal” plan adopted by the city in the mid-late ’70’s) and I’ve seen them in Oakland … blocks and blocks of them … now razed (some due to BART track being laid). I understand “slum.” “Trump Village” most certainly is not one. If it was, it would have been razed decades ago as that land is too close-in and valuable to waste on “slums.”
And, except for a former infamous Navy Housing complex with metal trash cans and their lids chained to the sidewalk in Paradise Hills (now completely rebuilt), SD never had any “slums.” Not in Barrio Logan, not in Shelltown, not in Grant Hill, not even in Encanto or Lomita Village … or anywhere, for that matter. As a SD “native,” you are well aware of this, SK, and I’m sure you must know what a “slum” is … and isn’t.
Of course, I didn’t know Fred Trump and neither did you. I was thinking of ordering a kindle version of one of the (several) Trump family biographies currently available on Amazon. I’d be interested in learning more about the early years, when Trump and his siblings were kids.
