Paywall on that one but I found a story elsewhere.
He can do what he wants with his own money, regardless of how wise or stupid it is. He can leave it all to his cat if he wants to.
His gay brother outed him by going to the media with this matter of the family trust. Irony.
He states he has rethought his ideas since opening this irrevocable trust but that he is not able to change the conditions now.
"greenwitch: I can’t read the article but his kids would be wise to nip this in the bud as soon as they can. “OK Dad, do you want a good relationship with me as you get older? Do you want to see your potential grandchildren frequently or rarely? The answers to these questions will change depending on the threats you issue”.
I’m not sure that counter-blackmail is the answer.
What’s the irony?
It’s fascinating to me that religion is the taboo barrier in some parts. I have an extremely diverse bubble of interracial, interfaith, etc couples and families but if I had to pick a barrier that still made some people in the community uncomfortable, it would be non-hetero families. Just interesting to know what’s going on in various corners of the country 
@ucbalumnus
“It is not like being a political candidate necessarily means that one is not a bigot.”
I must live in a bubble because in my world political candidates at the very least hide their bigotry better…
“He can do what he wants with his own money, regardless of how wise or stupid it is. He can leave it all to his cat if he wants to.”
And that would be most likely unenforceable, too. Unless the estate attorney knows how to do that. 
If a will goes down or if a trust fails, there is always a plan B - the intestacy statutes.
It is not hard to find a well documented publicly made textbook definition of a racist comment that was national news. Or opposition to immigration of those of specific national origin or religion. Of course, there are many others, from various politicians.
But that is not the point. The fact that there is plenty of bigotry among the US population means that politicians representing portions of the US population should not be expected to be immune from it. Indeed, those representing districts with higher levels of bigotry in the population may be representing those districts “better” if they hold the same bigotry.
Here is a brief synopsis of the marrying Jewish case I referenced earlier, https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/administrative-law/administrative-law-keyed-to-lawson/introduction/shapira-v-union-national-bank-2/.
It’s called Shapira v. Union National Bank. It’s an Ohio case, while Feinberg is from Illinois.
I read the law review article you posted. I can’t believe somebody actually titled an article, “Marry Goyim, Get Bupkis.” I shared the title with my personal shagetz, who laughed his goyishe kupf off.
Back to the original article, it appears that Mr. Racist can disinherit his children if they marry anyone who is not white, Christian and of the opposite gender.
If it were my father (can’t use the word “dad” personally in this hypothetical situation), I’d be ok with him keeping his money and distance - esp from grandkids. My own dad certainly has his issues (and we aren’t terribly close), but racism certainly isn’t one of them. If it were, I’d be livid.
I did get to put up with dealing with it for years with my in-laws. It wasn’t fun and caused a bunch of friction as well as giving me plenty of IRL examples to teach my kids and school kids from. Fortunately, the racism dies when they do in their family line. Neither hubby nor BIL buy into that garbage even though raised with it. By college they were over it. They’d seen too many “people” to buy into the “us vs them.” We did mostly keep our distance from them when the kids were young and explained a lot from a very early age.
I bet a few of the Japanese relatives were not too pleased either.
^^^ In my son’s situation, he said his girlfriend’s parents told him, “We never imagined X with a white man, but you’re really a nice person, so welcome to the family.” (paraphrased quote) They’ve treated him awesomely ever since.
I suspect a lot of folks have to think and perhaps challenge their upbringing, but once they do (if they do) they tend to find that people are people. Every group has its good and not-so-good among them.
My H had a sociology prof in college who used to say that in a couple of hundred years we are all going to be a lovely shade of brown. I don’t know that that will happen, but I will say that in my lifetime, I have seen the rates of inter-racial and interfaith marriages and relationships increasing by leaps and bounds. I think it’s wonderful - from diversity in the gene pool to the mixing of cultural traditions and the exposing of children to many different choices, but not everyone shares my view.
I did once say on this Board that I told my oldest son I would pay for his kids’ educations if he raised them Jewish and I was called out for it by some other posters. I spoke with him after that and he said, mom, education is so important to you, we know you’d pay for their education if you could even if we raise them Catholic, Muslim or Hindu and even if we give them no religion at all. I didn’t take you seriously! Note, my son is currently childless. His long time gf is half Irish-German Catholic, half Native American (but her dad was adopted off the reservation and raised Jewish).
I would never disinherit my kids for marrying someone who wasn’t Jewish or white, though I have told them that I will limit their access if they aren’t financially responsible. Oldest son is in danger on that point.
The last thing I want to say is that I have been critical of my own parents on this Board, very vocally. I want to give them a shout out for being totally color blind and not racist and for raising me to see people by their qualities and not their colors. This lack of racism and bigotry may have been their best quality.
Actually, leaving the money to a trust to care for the cat is not uncommon, and is permissible.
This article sounds more like scapegoat race baiting than journalism. I see a lot of emotionally charged “RACISM” statements with no facts. Oh, yeah, he’s a political candidate too. Everyone is suddenly a racist when they run for office. Just take the article, print it out, fold it into a paper airplane, and throw it into the fireplace.
There are some very religious Jewish families who would not accept their child marrying a non-Jew unless that person converted.
Re post #32–
Equating having to be Caucasian with strong family values seems textbook racism to me. And this is a present-day statement.
That’s the problem with irrevocable trusts-they’re irrevocable.
Many people find their views on topics like race and religion change over time and particularly when they have closer contact with people who challenge their biases. My parents were shocked and uncomfortable when their granddaughter came out as gay. Fast forward a half dozen years and they were encouraging her to marry her transgender [now] wife. They have fully accepted the wife as a member of the family, something I think they would have found unimaginable just a few years earlier.
Yes, I had a family member who used to be bigoted against Hispanics and Native Americans. Then his daughters married two. He liked one so much he made him his business partner.
The referenced article does include the fact that Vickers Cunningham put the racism in writing and confirmed it:
The relevant cases I remember reading were 1) the son who sued to overturn his late father’s stipulation that the son marry a Jewish-born woman and not a convert. Don’t recall all of the details but I believe the will was successfully challenged.
There was also Rice University, which was established from a will that stipulated that the school be tuition free for white students only. In the 1960s, the school had to fight a lawsuit against some alumni to change its charter to allow non-white students and charge tuition.