paghat wrote:

Oh loady loady, it's even worse than I've been saying. Here's a bad one
for sure, & alas it applies FEDERALLY:

In Meyer vs Holy, the Supreme Court made a unanimous & unfortunate
clarification regarding HOA discrimination against minorities. The Supreme
Court found that damages cannot be recovered from any officer or owner
within a HOA whose agents or volunteers are in conflict with the Fair
Housing Act refusing as a matter of policy to sell to Jews, blacks, or
other minorities.

The Supreme Court decision overturned a federal appeals court ruling that
applied the full letter of the Fair Housing Act even to HOAs. Civil Rights
inroads again reversed by conservatives!

-paghat the ratgirl


Yeah ... and they also discriminate against people making less than $11,000!

Give it a break ... you are as much in need of a life as the HOA Nazis.

A couple of thoughts: you want to compel people to live with other people
whom they are not comfortable being around.

I live, by choice, in a mixed-race neighborhood. Some from India / Pakistan,
many blacks, a smattering of whites. No Orientals that I can tell ... but
that reflects both a paucity of Orientals in Detroit and their desire to
live in upscale communities ... including the gated ones. I am, in fact, a
caucasian man married to a black woman in a very solid marriage.

However, I have a deep scar in the back of my left leg where a group of
younger black co-workers tried to cripple me ... and nearly succeeded. HR
where I work was totally un-helpful (afraid to accuse a black person of
hateful acts) when, after healing from the first injury I was returned TO
THE SAME WORKGROUP and the process of setting me up for the injury was
begun again. I had to quit a good job to keep from being crippled. I got my
wake up call when the guy doing the stitching on my leg the first time told
me that, had the missing muscle been gouged out a quarter of an inch deeper
or a half an inch lower, I would have forever lost the use of that foot.
Forever? Because my skin is too pale? I woke up this color just the same as
blacks wake up one morning and realize that their skin is dark.

Racism cuts both ways.

Get used to it. Some people just don't like other people for a variety of
reasons and excuses including NO reason, NO excuse. That doesn't make it
right ... but you'd best get adjusted to it.

I give such people, black or white, wide berth. There is nothing I need from
them, nothing I wish them to have from me. With one exception, I do not
socialize with the blacks at work because they live their lives very
differently from the way I live mine or else because they choose not to
spend their social time with ME. They have their lives, I have mine. Mine
includes gardening and a deeply spiritual life. Theirs do not. That I know
of, two have gardens; two others take spiritual matters seriously. One is
studying the Bible with me and joins me in religious services.

Then again, there are NO whites from work that I socialize with.

Get off your soapbox. You have a right to live with whomever is agreeable to
living with you and the right to exclude those with whom you are
uncomfortable. However, you do not have the freedom to excercise your
rights without also granting the exact same rights to others. Moreover, you
do not have the right to impose your decisions about who / what is
acceptable on others. Those who chose to live in HOA developments are no
more to be ridiculed than those who chose to live as you do.

Live your life (pretty much) as you please. Allow others to do the same.

Bill
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Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.