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 future depends on me coming out here like my mother walked for Martin Luther King. She marched, she walked. And I'm here in honor of her. And in honor of my daughter."
When asked about potential parallels to the past, Jamie said, "My parents and I came out of Jim Crow."
"While I was at the end of it, we were the result of what happened in Jim Crow, because my parents, who came up from the south, they went into New York and we were discriminated against [by] Trump," she said. "He would not allow us as being Black people to live in his properties."
When asked how she feels about recent ICE raids, Jamie said, "It makes me feel like we're going back and going back and going back, and we will not go back. We fought too hard. My mother, god bless her soul, she marched on Washington. And I cannot stand by while she marched on Washington and me not come out here and stand firm for her. God bless us all."