One of the primary battlefields in the current Texas culture war is happening in schools. It’s where many conservatives have abandoned the concept of white flight and instead embraced white fight.
Racist clauses in property deeds can’t be enforced, but still exist. A Texas bill would make it easier to remove them.
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An untold number of Texas properties still have language in their deeds that put racial restrictions on who can occupy them, even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared such restrictions illegal decades ago. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune)
James McGee knows well the history of housing discrimination against Black people like him in Texas. He worked in the mortgage industry for 20 years and now advocates for the revitalization of southern Dallas, an area where the majority of residents are Black or Hispanic.
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Opinion: Hateful words don t belong in property deeds
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Kanin Arimura, 6, climbs a tree at the park of the Old Braeswood community on which she is a resident. She visited the park with her mother and sister on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
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Regarding “Racist restrictions,” (A12, Feb. 11): In 2019, the Old Braeswood Property Owners Association decided to eliminate the racist language from the deed restrictions. Although we knew that such language was not enforceable, we strongly believed that it did not belong in our deed restrictions.
We spent a lot of time and effort to collect signatures from 75 percent of OBPOA owners and spent a good amount of money on legal representation and filing fees, but we succeeded in deleting such language from the restrictions.