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A Rape in 1989 Put Trump on the Radar of Racists and Woke Up Karma
Why Does Trump Think He Is Innocent and the ‘Central Park Five’ Still Guilty?
In 1989, a young woman went jogging at night in Central Park in New York. Shortly after beginning her run, she was attacked, brutally raped, and left for dead. Trish Meili today works with survivors of sexual violence in the same city where her life was so radically altered. Days after her attack, playboy and future buffoon Donald Trump put an ad in all New York papers (see above).
Trump, having grown up wealthy and a product of privilege, nonetheless was in tune with the pulse of much of New York. Racism was, is, and always will be a very real sentiment. There are still pockets of New York City that are as backward and hateful as Mississippi in 1960. Black men know from birth to stay out of those neighborhoods, and the simple turn of a wrong corner can mean trouble — the same holds true for whites living in the city. It is a marvelous city, regardless of all of humanity’s ignorance and weaknesses, and in that city, in 2003, the young men of “Central Park Five,” as their group (two of the boys didn’t know the other three) would infamously be called, were released from prison for the rape mentioned above.
