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Open City, the 1973 program Clinton used to claim Trump was racist.

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Read a recent opinion article on CNN, which clearly I know was a mistake now, regarding "Why" Harriet Tubman wouldn't be put on the 20 dollar bill in Trumps era. The author immediately tries to link this to racism, even going as far as to claim a campaign remark by Clinton regarding a 1973 case against Trump Corp. The case is interesting. It comes on the heals of the Open City project that was an effort in the late 60-early 70s to 1)see if landlords discriminated against non-white 2) help place those discriminated in housing. A noble cause at first blush, something most people probably can get behind. The problem sits with two elements here though. If you do some research you'll find that the case wasn't against Trump, mores so a conglomerate of organization. The case was settled with no actual 'guilt'. Now, you could argue that paying off people equals guilt, I wouldn't but I can see why some would believe that. I dug a little deeper into Betty Hoeb...