An ugly legacy: Latino couple finds racist covenant in housing paperwork

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The document stated that “no persons other than those wholly of the white Caucasian race shall use, occupy or reside' on the property.

“My first question was, ‘Is this a joke?’ We were both shocked ,” Romero said. “It made us second guess our offer. We were concerned that people living in the neighborhood might have signed documents with similar statements.”

Covenants with “racially restrictive language” in housing documents were outlawed by the landmark 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, according to Eduardo Peñalver, the Allan R. Tessler Dean at Cornell University Law School. While “racially restrictive” clauses were “fairly common” prior to Shelly v. Kraemer and the Fair Housing Act, the frequency of such clauses “doesn’t eliminate the shock when someone finds language like that in their property’s paperwork today,” according to Peñalver.

 

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Another fake hate crime 'Covenants with “racially restrictive language” in housing documents were outlawed by the landmark 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, according to Eduardo Peñalver, the Allan R. Tessler Dean at Cornell University Law School.'

So you had the property?

Similar language was in the paperwork when we bought our house in 2001. It was built in 1977. We crossed it out.

Your evening social justice outrage story. Nice going interns👍🏻

Apparently he found it while putting hydraulics in his low rider.

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