Nealie Pitts, seen here with her husband James outside their home in Richmond, Va., is suing Rufus Matthews for damages because he allegedly told her his home could be sold only to white people. (Photo: AP)Nealie Pitts, seen here with her husband James outside their home in Richmond, Va., is suing Rufus Matthews for damages because he allegedly told her his home could be sold only to white people. (Photo: AP)
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The correct way to state it is the covenants were ruled 'unenforceable' by a court.
What kind of idiot would try to enforce a racial covenant in this day and age?
BC/JD?
Ruffus is an idiot, but should he lose his house or life savings? Why smack a little dumb guy and put him down for a long count? The Pitts look to already have a better home than Ruffus, should they get all his money too?
It looks like they live in such a pit now. / Sarc.
Talk about a no-brainer.....
I don't buy that Rufus is an innocent idiot at all. You're trying to sell your house and find that clause. Black person comes to buy the house and what, in the year 2005, do you say? Gee black person I can't sell you this house because some bigot long dead says I can't. Spare me. How about gee black person, maybe after all that civil rights stuff we might be able to find a way around this.
I'd bet rufus is just an ass that enjoyed jacking with people. Whatever the lady doesn't get I hope the lawyer gets the rest.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Only in Richmond! Glad I escaped to Louisa County.
The sellers mistake was being stupid enought to say something like that.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.