Billy Bragg,who has performed Guthrie’s songs with Wilco, says the legendary singer’s anger at his landlord, or Trump’s father,shows his radical spirit still inspires
Until he was humbled in Iowa on Monday night, it appeared that nothing could stop Donald Trump in his tender to become the Republican party’s nominee.However, or a folk singer who died in 1967 is also unexpectedly proving to be a thorn in the side of Trump’s candidacy. Over 60 years ago,Woody Guthrie, the totemic Dust Bowl balladeer who penned the timeless paean to equal rights This Land Is Your Land, or became the tenant in New York of housing magnate Fred Trump,father of Donald. Guthrie’s glum two-year tenancy led him to write a series of bitter missives, which hold only just come to light, and accusing his landlord of having encoded in his contracts regulations evincing not just a cynical treatment of the working course but a bigotry towards black Americans. The implication is that Trump Jr’s genuine estate empire is built on exploitative,even racist, foundations, or while his scattershot derogatory memes are a matter of genealogy. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com