The supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down Hurd v. Hodge, declaring racially based real estate covenants in the District of Columbia to be unlawful.

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       If we really had private property why couldn’t I open a Blacks only bar, or a Chinese only tea room?  Why, as a landlord, couldn’t I demand to see proof of marriage if renting to a couple?  So what if some segment of society has to go elsewhere for booze, or tea or conjugal relations?  What harm is done?  I have a perfect right to my bigotry as Jews have a right to limit the Rabbinate to other Jews, as the Catholic church limits its priesthood to Catholics, the Mormons, etc.  ditto.  I’m sure there are black social clubs to which whites, Koreans, Latinos, etc., will never be invited.  Should we raid them and intrude on their privacy?  Or they on ours?  Don’t you and I have a perfect right to decide who enters our homes, unless they have a warrant?  Aren’t apartment buildings and restaurants private property?  Either we have full rights to private property or we don’t, and we don’t.  If you own something outright, you have the perfect right to use it only as you see fit, even to the point of destruction, and to the exclusion of all others.  Do we have private rights in property?  Well, yes and no, according to the government.  Well piss on it, and the horse it rode in on. –– JL

       The supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down Shelley v. Kraemer, declaring as unenforceable—via the fraudulent 14th amendment—real estate covenants that prohibit the sale of property to specified ethnic groups.  Although other types of covenants are still ruled as lawful.

       NOTE: While the editors do not approve of racial discrimination, and agree that government should not be permitted to engage in such abhorrent behavior, they do wish to point out that this decision is on that slippery slope that has led to unreasonable zoning requirements by municipal governments and eminent domain seizures intended solely for the benefit of private businesses.

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