Landlord puts up "White only," sign at pool.

Thanks for the edit.

so does put's...

This quotation raises my eyebrows:

"I've never said anything to that child," Hein said. "If I have to stick up for my white rights, I have to stick up for my white rights. It goes both ways."

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What was the edit?

& what are white rights?

See, she's confusing "the inalienable rights of every sentient being on the planet" with "White rights".

It's a common mistake among the privileged, who assume that others trying to GAIN what they have is the same as them being asked to "give up" something.

Now, I think she should be free to put up the sign...and we would be equally free to judge her because of it. I judge her to either be completely out of touch with reality...or a fucking racist.

Maryn said:

It's hard to lose the insults one learned as a kid even when one realizes how hurtful they are. We appreciate the correction.

Maryn, who thinks the sign should not have been hung without context

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I don't think it should have been hung at all. Some antiques don't need to be celebrated.

Well, in the context of a witness claiming she made racial slurs about black people's hair, and the context of this woman saying "white rights," I'm kinda gonna assume the "antique" thing is just something she made up because she realized nobody likes her.

And I salute her.

Nothing like dealing with an out and proud racist. At least,I know where I stand with them. I cannot deal with people that smile in my face and hate behind my back.

Zoombie said:

See, she's confusing "the inalienable rights of every sentient being on the planet" with "White rights".

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A pox on exclusivity of rights based on skin colour!

MOD Note:

After a brief consult with our rockin' new POC Room Mod, Kitty27, moving this here.

-- Williebee

After reading the guidelines of this subforum (POC), I'm failing to see what this news story about a racist landlord and her likely violating the Fair Housing Act has to do with racial issues in writing or minority characters in fiction, or authors of color.

It is clearly a "political and/or current event," not a writing-related one.

Doesn't seem like it should have been moved.

New room???


**Looks around**

Is it just mean, or is the paint on the wall the same color in all the rooms??

And would it kill someone to toss down a throw rug?

I read about this on gawker.

What a ridiculous person. The sign is gone anyway, someone "stole" it.

There's no excuse for hanging a sign like that. None. If you want to show off your antique sign in your own home, fine. Though I find it disgusting. But there's absolutely no reason to hang a sign like that in public, antique or not. I get it that she hung it at her own pool, but obviously, it's in a place where outsiders can see it. And that's offensive.

Growing up I saw those signs on everything. It might be a relic of the past, an artifact of history, but it brings shameful memories to many of my generation, and a reaffirmation of bias to others.

If, however, we keep such things buried in the past, we are, in effect, rewriting history to sanitize our legacy.

Let her hang the sign if for no other reason than to remind us of what we tolerated and to educate younger people about how things were. I don't need context. It is what it is.

This episode could be a good short story. Layers of conflict and contradition.

Yeah, no benefit of the doubt here. The fact that she has tenants who use her pool alone would make hanging that sign tasteless and wrong. But I would think any normal person would feel horrible realizing that something they genuinely did innocently looked, in fact, racist. Prattling on about "white rights" is not the response of a non-racist person.