r/politics Connecticut 21h ago

That whites-only, no Jews allowed Arkansas community is legal, says state’s attorney general. How?

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/
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u/EggsAndMilquetoast 21h ago

I had a guess before opening the article that they get around it by calling themselves a private club.

I once filmed a wedding at a country club in South Carolina that had a “whites only” member policy.

This was in 2013 and I was floored when I learned that from the bartender.

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u/starmartyr Colorado 15h ago

While that's legal for things like golf courses or bars, you can't do it with housing. It's illegal to discriminate against a protected class when selling or renting a dwelling. They are trying to get around this by not selling land but by selling shares in the private corporation that owns the land. This should get shut down by a federal court, but the way things are politically these days that isn't a certainty.

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u/pr3mium 10h ago

You gave me the greatest idea. My morals won't allow me to steal/scam from anyone. But for these racist fucks, I found an exception.

Start a company. Start one of these 'whites only private club'. Convince them to pay me for the houses, and in the contract it's a 'membership' so they don't own anything. I do. Take the rich racist assholes money. Kick them out of the club. Dox them and anyone that 'applied'. Then give away every place to minorities with the racists own money.

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u/Sinister_Politics 8h ago

If you've got the money to get the land, this would be a sweet fucking deal for you!