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Thread ID: 17917 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2005-04-23
2005-04-23 03:01 | User Profile
The following story demonstrates what all thinking people already know: In this "free" country of ours, you don't REALLY own your own property, since you don't have the right to sell it or refuse to sell it to whomever you wish.
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=19&u=/ap/20050422/ap_on_re_us/house_sale_race[/url]
Man Accused of Racial Bias in House Sale
Fri Apr 22, 2:05 AM ET
By DIONNE WALKER, Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. - The modest brick house, with its yard full of wilting tulips and rusted old cars, isn't a candidate for the pages of Better Homes and Gardens.
But on a spring day in 2002, it was just what Nealie Pitts had in mind. She approached the owner, Rufus T. Matthews, and asked the price.
According to court documents, Matthews said the house was selling for $83,000 ââ¬â but that a deed restriction meant only whites were eligible to buy it.
"I was hurt and angry, like he had slapped me in the face," Pitts, who is black, said in an e-mail.
Nearly three years later, the Virginia Office of the Attorney General said it will soon take Matthews to court for the alleged fair housing law violation.
It's a bittersweet victory for fair housing proponents, who wonder how many other people are turned away by racially restrictive deed covenants.
"We very rarely encounter anybody who believes they can be enforced," said Connie Chamberlin, president of Housing Opportunities Made Equal. "(But) we are aware they're certainly out there."
In milder forms, covenants can be used to control things like the color homeowners can paint their houses.
But in the Jim Crow South, they were often used to keep neighborhoods white. Racially restrictive covenants were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in 1948.
"Many people don't even know they're in their deeds," Chamberlin said, adding would-be home buyers can ask to have the racist language removed. "That can't be used as a reason to stop a sale."
According to court documents, Matthews told Pitts his house in suburban Richmond was "not for colored. We decided we are going to keep this area right here all white."
The next day she contacted HOME, which sent out a black test buyer.
"Precisely the same thing happened," Chamberlin said. "We have it on tape."
On Thursday, Matthews told The Associated Press that he would sell his home only to a white buyer. But he denied the house was for sale, saying a sale sign he had was for items in his yard. "The house has never been for sale," he said.
Matthews is accused of violating the Virginia Fair Housing Law. The same code says officials can attempt an out-of-court settlement in cases where the law has been violated.
At an April 13 meeting, the Virginia Fair Housing Board rejected a settlement offer. Board Chairman David Rubinstein declined to detail why it refused the proposal from the attorney general's office.
But Thomas Wolf, an attorney representing Pitts, said the offer would have required Matthews take two hours of class on fair housing law, at taxpayer expense.
"That is not a serious settlement proposal given the facts of the case," Wolf said. "Were they planning to pass out Happy Meals with little Confederate flags?"
Emily Lucier, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Judith Williams Jagdmann, could not explain how the proposal was formulated, but said settlement is not unheard of in discrimination cases.
Pitts is seeking $100,000 in damages in a separate case against Matthews. Lucier said because Pitts has gotten her own lawyer, the office cannot legally seek monetary damages in the civil matter.
Instead, she said, the office will continue pressing for injunctive relief and education. A court date has not been set.
2005-04-23 06:41 | User Profile
I wouldn't want ever to sell to hindumonkeys: they aren't trustworthy and tend to apply stupid dirty tricks (they are gypsies in heart and appearence). I don't have time to waste on such buyers. Also, chinks tend to way overprice their homes (it's usually very clean but that shouldn't cost such a premium). With multiple offers in this area, it's hard to claim any bias, as there is no refusal to sell. Sellers are free to use subjective criteria when picking an offer from miltiple ones.
2005-04-23 14:56 | User Profile
It's amazing what democracy lets the government get away with.
2005-04-23 16:57 | User Profile
This is unfortunate. All the homeowner had to do was say, "I'm not selling to you" and there would have been no violation. He falls under the FHA exemption, since he is an independent seller of a single family home.
However, by explicitly saying he was not selling to her because she's black, he violates another section of FHA where there is no exemption.
2005-04-23 18:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=random]This is unfortunate. All the homeowner had to do was say, "I'm not selling to you" and there would have been no violation. He falls under the FHA exemption, since he is an independent seller of a single family home.
However, by explicitly saying he was not selling to her because she's black, he violates another section of FHA where there is no exemption.[/QUOTE] Good points. I hate these laws as much as anyone, but I never cease to be amazed by the unbelievable naivete of whites. They must still think that this is their own country, or something, and that they still have something called "rights".
Whites need to wake up and realize that they are living in an occupied country, where the rules are only designed to trip them up, and the laws are only applied with an eye to disadvantaging whites.
Whites who realize the reality of the situation need to play smart. Never, ever tell a non-white what you really think about them. Never, ever tell them you don't want to do business with them or that you don't want to sell to them or that you don't trust them.
There are plenty of ways of saying no - or of simply being polite while saying nothing - that get you off the hook without getting you into legal trouble.
Once enough whites start to realize the new rules of the game, and start to adjust their behavior accordingly, things will start to change. The present system relies heavily on white trust and white naivete and white ignorance. Once whites wise up, the only way to maintain the system will be by open force and when that happens the end game is not far in sight.
2005-04-27 17:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=grep14w]The present system relies heavily on white trust and white naivete and white ignorance.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Whites are by nature trusting folks: however we evolved, we evolved in such a way as to make trust come easily to us. We live our lives with the assumption that the system is basically good and designed with our well-being in mind. Of course, in America, it is not. It is designed with our exploitation in mind. But nobody wants to change their thinking on that, because doing so means living life in a state of perpetual fear. Much easier to continue denying that we are no longer in control of our racial destiny, because that makes it easier to focus on the little things of every day life: paying bills, putting dinner on the table, getting the car fixed, etc.
But there is really something breathtaking about the loss of such a basic human right: to whom you can sell your property, and with whom you can live. If you cannot make these decisions for yourself, little else matters. The heart and soul of what makes us free people is ripped right out. I can think of few examples of our dispossession that are as concrete as the housing discrimination laws. Those laws need to be stricken, the system that allows them destroyed, and the minds of our people awakened.
2005-04-27 17:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler] But in the Jim Crow South, they were often used to keep neighborhoods white. Racially restrictive covenants were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in [B][SIZE=4]1948[/SIZE][/B].[/QUOTE]
A few years after 100's of 1000's of White American soldiers were killed in WWII, fighting, what their Zionist-occupied American government told them, to 'protect our American way of life'. Nice going 'greatest generation', you lost your rights to a safe, clean, healthy and sane White neighborhood. See, 'no good deed goes unpunished'.
2005-06-03 05:18 | User Profile
The consensus here seems to be that the homeowner should have just said "I'm not selling to you", and not mentioned it was because of the woman's race. Then, if she said it was because she was Black, she'd be right, but she'd be made to look like a troublemaker, and all the whiny whites could say "the 'negroes' are always accusing us of racism! we're innocent!" Dishonesty is quite possibly the most constant of white traditions.
2005-06-03 13:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ked McFarlane] Dishonesty is quite possibly the most constant of white traditions.[/QUOTE]
And failure, dysfunction, bastard births, crime, brutality, ignorance, baseness, and arrogance are a constant of black traditions. And, no, most Whites are not dishonest about how they feel about blacks, it's just against the law, decreed by the Zionist-American government, to say you don't want to sell to them, live with them, work with them....so we're forced to pretend we like your kind.
And the fact is, many Whites don't see it as purely racial. It's just the behavior of black people is just absolutely appalling and quite ridiculous. They're loud, coarse, confrontational, idiotic and in most cases, ugly. If y'all behaved like human beings then things might be different in this country.....but Jack don't want none, jack don't get none!!
Your arguments are nothing, and the space you occupy here means nothing. You're nothing but a whining black who thinks he's gonna change hearts and minds here. You're wasting your time.
2005-06-03 13:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=grep14w]Never, ever tell a non-white what you really think about them. Never, ever tell them you don't want to do business with them or that you don't want to sell to them or that you don't trust them. [/QUOTE]Yes, it is imperative for whites who "get it" to suppress their true feelings, views, and motives--if they are ambitious. There is nothing to be gained by grandstanding; there is everything to be gained by working within the system, making money, gaining power & influence, waiting for the right time to act. Whites need to become "internal emigrants," at least until the present system collapses or is overthrown. :rockon:
2005-06-10 11:55 | User Profile
At an April 13 meeting, the Virginia Fair Housing Board rejected a settlement offer. Board Chairman David Rubinstein declined to detail why it refused the proposal from the attorney general's office.
That name says it all... *
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2005-06-10 17:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE=SteamshipTime]It's amazing what democracy lets the government get away with.[/QUOTE]
:lol: Very true.
2005-06-10 20:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ked McFarlane]The consensus here seems to be that the homeowner should have just said "I'm not selling to you", and not mentioned it was because of the woman's race. Then, if she said it was because she was Black, she'd be right, but she'd be made to look like a troublemaker, and all the whiny whites could say "the 'negroes' are always accusing us of racism! we're innocent!" Dishonesty is quite possibly the most constant of white traditions.[/QUOTE] No, dishonesty is forced on to us by the Jew system. If whites were free to speak and write and act freely, if they still had true freedom of association and property rights, they wouldn't have to be dishonest in order to hang on to their dearly bought property rights and avoid legal harrassment from an out of control system designed deliberately to deprive them of their rights and to force them to remain silent.
Obviously you want whites to be third class citizens in this country, behind Jews and Blacks, and you also want us to like it and honestly say we like being deprived of our property rights and other rights. Well, it's not going to happen. You may be able to use the government to oppress us, but you aren't going to get us to love Big Brother. Oppress us, earn hatred in return. That's the facts of life, and if you don't like it, tough shit. You created this mess. Don't expect us to like you for it, too.