January 5, 2006
White trash
Helping New Orleans’ homeless, conservatively:
The Web sites seem friendly enough. With names such as Katrinahousing.org, they offer hurricane victims help finding places to live.
But the listings aren’t for everyone. Many of the Good Samaritans who post available accommodations want to provide housing only for certain folks.
“Not racist, but white only,” says a Jasper, Ala., posting that offers two rooms in a mobile home.
“As a white couple, we would be looking for a white mother and baby,” advises a posting from Casselbery, Fla.
“Will help white males ages 20-45,” says a Baton Rouge offer.
“We would prefer a white Christian couple. Pastors are welcome,” says someone from Douglasville, Ga.
… The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center found 68 such postings on five Web sites that offer housing to people displaced by Katrina. All of them violate federal law because, even though most of the offers are for free housing, they are posted on Web sites that generate revenue through advertising, said the nonprofit civil rights organization, which filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
… Some of the postings asked specifically for black residents, but the majority of the discriminatory postings say white people only. Several are apologetic in tone. “We live in a redneck county here and blacks are frowned on,” says a Dunnellon, Fla., resident. “Heck, we were also frowned on . . . but I don’t want any of my neighbors having ruffled feathers.”
Welcome to the neighborhood.
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