EDC subdivision has ‘whites only’ clause
By Karma Dickerson, Fox-40
An El Dorado Hills subdivision still has a “whites only” occupancy rule on the books.
The Lake Hills community’s shocking policy put in place in 1961 policy is not, and cannot legally be enforced, but some new residents are calling for its immediate removal.
The Foster family had barely closed the sale on their new home, when they were blown away by an old rule. Their move from Folsom to El Dorado hills was just a matter or miles but, as far the neighborhood agreement they’d just signed, they might as well have been worlds or decades away.
In the early sixties the same policy was being enforced in Coney Island’s “Trump Village,” owned by Fred Trump, who was introducing his college age son Donald to the workings of commerce.
( At the same time, I was in the Air Force in Biloxi, Mississippi, where my roommate, a black UCLA graduate, was being ordered off the sidewalks by rednecks who probably couldn’t spell “UCLA,” let alone “Trump.”
Airforce in Biloxi Mississippi! Whoa what fun!