Posted on 04/22/2005 10:54:48 PM PDT by freepatriot32
They finally found one idiot biggot to howl about. No One has a problem with hard working people trying to get ahead (except this one seller).How about the degradation of entire communities that goes on every day when they jam "low income" or PROJECT housing into the area where your house (which you've worked so hard for all your life) resides. Not a peep. Just more complaints about a non-problem. People will always want to be with their own kind, same as in the animal kingdom.It's not gonna stop just because some aclu types want it to.
Thanks. I tend to have a soft spot for the underdog.
Here, HUD pays for a house when blacks move into a white neighborhood--3 over $100,000 to the relative of the man who is head of the local HUD funds. The median cost of a home here is about $50,000.
There's a difference in the court enforcing the covenant and the owner respecting the covenant.
I think you might want to say "national origin" here, not nationality. Ownership of land by aliens is something that is quite within the realm of regulation or exclusion.
If that weren't true, we wouldn't have a country. China could just buy up whatever it needed and erect housing for its millions right there.
Of course, we hardly have a country now. I have no idea where there is any legality in selling property to illegal aliens, but apparently banks and mortgage lenders think it's all just fine and dandy. Be interesting to see what would happen if someone were to challenge property rights involving an illegal alien "landowner".
If it's the person's private property, doesn't he have the right to sell (or not to sell) to whomever he chooses?
If someone wants to stand up and loudly announce that they're a racist, who are we to stop them?
Oh, I believe it's right next to the one decreeing expectation(s) of civilized behavior vary from group to group, nation to nation, and political belief to political belief.
Something not quite adding up. It almost sounds like a setup.
Since it is his property, why doesn't he have to right to sell to whom ever he pleases.
I don't care what the courts ruled, it is his property and he should be able to sell to whomever he pleases.
"It's a bittersweet victory for fair housing proponents, who wonder how many other people are turned away by racially restrictive deed covenants."
Rest assured, dear people, that no one else has been "turned away" because you would have heard about each and every case (loud and clear -as it should be)
Both sides did wrong.
What family would sue to buy a home in a neighborhood that doesn't want "their kind"? If *I* weren't welcome in a neighborhood, I'd choose another neighborhood. And can't the seller choose to whom they want to sell their home?
On the other hand, this reminds me of the racist Palestinians, who want Joooooos out of "their" neighborhoods.
Your points seem right on.
This kind of "iscrimination" is ugly, for the most part. The white many may well be a racist. But it shouldn't be illegal for a man to choose to whom he sells his home.
And it is odd that a rich black couple is so interested in buying this poor man's home. Perhaps they "know" something, and they'll go on to sell it to a developer for $300k. The black couple should have just "let it go," and found another home. They're crybabies. And their attorneys are nasty sharks.
You mean like a blacks only dorm at a state university?
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.16297/article_detail.asp
This is a racially motivated attack by the priveledged class. I think a good resolution would be forcing the complainants to buy the house at list price and live there for a minimum of five years. Put their money where their mouth is.
The right to free association is which amendment?
Diva's Husband
No, they should have just rung up the appropriate alphabet soup gubmint agency and the house would have been theirs in 24 hours, a week tops.
IMO, this lady had a scam goin before she ever approached the old man.
Are there any blacks living in Oyster Harbors on Cape Cod?
Are there any blacks living on Gibson Island near Baltimore, MD?
You're right, but it wouldn't be a news item... and there would be no condemnation of the person who inserted the clause.
There are clearly no real damages in this case .... but there will be a money grab. Some lawyer will undoubtedly claim that the Pitts' are now suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and they haven't been able to work, and they are now experiencing health problems, etc, etc, etc.
My guess would be to rent it or fix it up and resell.
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