[Marxism] White only towns

[James Zarichny <zarichny@xxxxxxxxx>]

    When I was a kid,restrictive covenant clauses were
enforced by the local police.  My parents? knowledge
of English was so limited that they usually had me
read documents  and translate.  In 1934,  my parents
bought a house north of Pierson Road in Flint  As a
condition for selling, the land contract specified
that the house would not be resold to  Persians,
Greeks, Negroes, or some other groups. This
restrictive covenant clause was strictly enforced  by
the police, even in the poorest areas.  For example in
most of the area where we lived, there was no sewage
system.  People had outdoor toilets.  It was not until
1937-38 that Roosevelt?s WPA put in sewers in all of
the city.   It was only some years later, after
several Supreme Court justices had died and been
replaced by New Dealers that the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that restrictive covenant clauses could not be
enforced by law enforcement agencies.
     Jim Zarichny..



                
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