A Los Angeles "No Kings" protester told MSNBC on Saturday that she and her parents were discriminated against by Donald Trump's family when they tried to rent property in New York years ago.
Trump was accused of bias in renting to Black people in connection with the rentals from his father, Fred Trump, in the 1960s, according to the New York Times. That old story got new life over the weekend, when a MSNBC reporter attended a "No Kings" protest in L.A.
The subject was only identified as Jamie from Rancho Cucamonga, and, when asked why she was there, she said, "Because my daughter's futuredepends on me coming out herelike my mother walked for Martin Luther King. She marched,she walked. And I'm here inhonor of her. And in honor ofmy daughter."
When asked about potential parallels to the past, Jamie said, "Myparents and I came out of Jim Crow."
"While I was at the end ofit, we were the result of whathappened in Jim Crow, becausemy parents, who came up fromthe south, they went into New York and we were discriminatedagainst [by] Trump," she said. "He wouldnot allow us as being Blackpeople to live in hisproperties."
When asked how she feels about recent ICE raids, Jamie said, "It makes me feel like we'regoing back and going back andgoing back, and we will not goback. We fought too hard. Mymother, god bless her soul, shemarched on Washington. And Icannot stand by while shemarched on Washington and menot come out here and standfirm for her. God bless us all."
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