Donald in Black and White: The Republican candidate immediately attempted to capitalize on the murder of an NBA star’s cousin, posting on Twitter, “Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”

Nykea Aldridge was unintentionally caught in a gang shooting. Trump says black Americans should vote for him because he will make their lives safer.

  By coincidence, The NY Times has a major story today about how the Trump real estate empire used to close its doors to black tenants. Somehow that apartment that had been advertised was always “just rented.”

When Donald Trump was president of his father’s company, they were sued for housing discrimination. It was a major case that broke barriers in New York.

The paper quotes Trump saying at the time, “Absolutely ridiculous.” The Trump buildings had only a handful of black tenants at the time.

The Times story says, “Looking back, Mr. Trump’s response to the lawsuit can be seen as presaging his handling of subsequent challenges, in business and in politics. Rather than quietly trying to settle — as another New York developer had done a couple of years earlier — he turned it into a protracted battle, complete with angry denials, character assassination, charges that the government was trying to force him to rent to ‘welfare recipients’ and a $100 million countersuit accusing the Justice Department of defamation.

When it was over, Mr. Trump declared victory, emphasizing that the consent decree he ultimately signed did not include an admission of guilt.”

Fiction From Fact: Trump told a crowd at the Iowa State Fair yesterday, “Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms just like she wants to shut down the mines and the steelworkers. She will do this not only through radical regulation, but also by raising taxes on family farms – and all businesses – to rates as high as nearly 50 percent.”

Clinton has said no such thing.

Through the Uprights: The NY Times “Upshot” reports that the latest polling tells them Hillary Clinton has a 90 percent chance of winning the presidential election. They say, “Mrs. Clinton’s chance of losing is about the same as the probability that an NFL kicker misses a field goal from the 20-yard line.”

Permawar: In the tangle of alliances and enemies in the Syrian civil war, Turkish-backed rebels are clashing with Kurdish rebels who have also been fighting against the Syrian regime. Turkish jets appear to have conducted airstrikes against the Kurds. The Turks, the rebels they’re helping, and the Kurdish rebels they are fighting are all US allies. While the Turks drove tanks into Syria this week to push back the Islamic State, they also want to stop the Kurds from establishing an autonomous region along the Turkish border.

The Obit Page: Marvin Kaplan, a character actor who played Henry the telephone repairman on the 1980s sitcom “Alice” has died at age 89. — Alexander Polli, a skydiver and pioneer in BASE jumping died this week in a wingsuit accident in the French Alps. He was 31. Polli made a popular video of his 155 mph flight through the opening of “Batman Cave” in Montserrat, Spain. — Jeanne Martin, the second wife of singer Dean Martin, died this week at age 89. Their son, Dean Paul, was an Air National Guard captain who crashed his F-4 Phantom into the San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm in 1987.

Field Goal: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is refusing to stand for the National Anthem before games this year. He remained seated for the anthem Friday night at Levi’s Stadium. Kaepernick said he refuses to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people.”

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