Two excellent pieces of journalism by my @NorthBayNews colleagues were published today. 🧵
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This article (by @nashellytweets) on the lingering existence of racial covenants exposes the discrimination against minority homeowners in the Bay Area. pressdemocrat.com/article/news/r…
One SRJC neighborhood deed reads: “No person of African, Japanese, Chinese or of any Mongolian descent shall be allowed to purchase, own, lease or occupy said real property... except ... domestic servants of a race or nationality..."
@alana_minkler @nashellytweets My friends owned a house on Clark St. in Santa Rosa, near the Luther Burbank home. They found this covenant language in their deed. They were pretty shocked.