Tebow take the wheel.
Cincinnati Landlord Jamie Hein asked the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to reconsider its ruling that Hein had discriminated against a young black girl by posting a “Whites Only” sign at a public pool. The Commission said, “nope!” and upheld its decision 4-0 without discussion.
Hein, a 31-year-old landlord for an apartment complex in Cincinnati placed the “Whites Only” sign poolside claiming that one of her tenants’ 10-year old daughter was making the pool water cloudy because she used chemicals in her hair. Apparently, Hein had never heard of swimming caps:
The commission, meeting this week in Columbus, concluded last year that the sign “restricts the social contact between Caucasians and African Americans as well as reinforcing discrimination actions that are aimed at oppressing all ‘people of color.’”
The case was brought by Michael Gunn, a white man who said had unrestricted access to the pool area for himself and his guests during the nearly two years he lived in the duplex, he said in a December interview.
Gunn, a software engineer, said he and his girlfriend, who is also white, lived upstairs; their 31-year-old landlord lived downstairs. However, he said their relationship soured in May 2011 when he invited his 10-year-old biracial daughter to visit and swim in the pool.
“Complainant states that the owner, Jamie Hein, accused his daughter of making the pool ‘cloudy’ because she used chemicals in her hair,” the commission said in its summary. “Days later, the owner posted a sign on the gate to the pool which read, ‘Public Swimming Pool, White Only.’”
Several witnesses confirmed that Hein indicated that she had posted the sign because the young girl’s hair was making the pool cloudy. Hein, on the other hand, contended that the sign was an antique and that she’s a collector. Uh-huh:
Hein said she received the sign from a friend and posted it in early May, the summary says. Several people interviewed by the commission staff confirmed that they had seen the sign, it added.
Hein did not respond to a request for comment at the time. But she told ABC News in December that she collects antiques. She said the sign, which was dated 1931 and from Alabama, was a gift from a friend.
“I don’t have any problem with race at all. It’s a historical sign,” she told ABC.
Ninja, please.
First of all, if you don’t have a problem with race, why are you collecting “whites only” swimming pool signs and putting them on the fence of the swimming pool in the building you manage?
Second of all, you’re full of crap.
Third, of all, on the off-chance you were actually concerned about the cloudy pool water — which you weren’t, but let’s pretend — the rational response would have been to institute a swimming cap policy. The rational response is never — and I mean never ever – a ”WHITES ONLY” sign.
And finally, if you’re going to be racist, just be RACIST. Own it! Why make up nonsense about cloudy pool water? Just go ahead and let your racist freak flag fly! I mean, what’s next? Banning black children from pools because you heard somewhere that black kids are three times more likely to pee in a pool than white kids?
Apartment complex pools are hotbeds of urine and general grossness. Everybody knows that. A little Soul Glow added to the mix isn’t going to kill anybody.
1. She is a vile and disgusting human being and 2. if you’re gonna hate someone because of their colour be up front with it and enough of this passive aggresive shit.
What a load of bullshit. Not racist?
Seriously.
I think the 2012 election is going to result in one great big ol’ FU to all of these ID10Ts and whoever gets chosen to lead their rump of a party’s ticket. To quote Bart Scott: CAN’T WAIT!
You and me both. Obama is going to crush those bastards. Couldn’t happen to nicer people.
That is what deserves to happen, Doc, but then, Al Gore deserved to be sworn in as President on January 20th, 2001.
But from your lips to Allah’s ear, dude.
True, but who have they got? Romney? Obama will wipe the floor with him in the debates. Santorum? Same as Romney. Paul? All they have to do is keep leaking the racist/sexist/homophobic crap he wrote in those newsletters-and yes, he WROTE THEM. The Repubs are hopeless, and I think they know it.
You would be surprised at how many young people support Ron Paul, and not just WASPs. I live in New York city, and most of the black males 30 and under where I work support him. This in turn has almost caused some fist fights from the older gentlemen that lived through the civil rights movement and Jim crow laws and saw people die for those protections. While Ron Paul wants to piss all those rights and protections away.
Just asking, this is not a rebuttal. Can you please site a source for these newsletters? I would like to see.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ron+paul+newsletters
Al Gore didnt fight, and what he got for his troubles is being dragged down by the neck by the likes of Keith Olbermann and Cenk Uygar, so he’s in his own personal hell in the making
What does this even mean? Do you read what you write? Can you even understand yourself?
Whats not to understand?
Do you need me to break it down for you?
Give it to you in pieces?
Spoon feed it to you that way
If she were really concerned about the pool water, she would bar all children less than about 14 from the pool. Small children always pee in the water.
She’d be able to be upfront about her racism if all the libruls and uppity dark-skinned folks and Soros-funded media types weren’t constantly on her back, forcing her to be all PC about everything. It’s all YOUR fault for oppressing her.
/teabagger
“She’d be able to be upfront about her racism if all the libruls and uppity dark-skinned folks and Soros-funded media types weren’t constantly on her back, forcing her to be all PC about everything. It’s all YOUR fault for oppressing her.”
Sarcasm? If not, my take is you lose when you bring up Soros. I want to ask if your paid by the post or do you get penalized when you go off script. Me thinks it’s sarcasm and as such, that is exactly what dipshit, racist teabaggers would say!
Yes, that was sarcasm. I figured the spelling of the word “liberal,” the use of the word “uppity,” the invocation of Soros, the slash mark, the use of the word “teabagger,” etc. would pretty well give it away.
Poe’s Law in action.
Swimming pools and restrooms are always the bellwethers of where society is heading in regard to race. Here in Australia the Freedom Riders in the 1960s (inspired of course by their American predecessors) traveled from outback town to outback town to expose the “whites only” public pools and other facilities for which aboriginal citizens paid through local taxes but could not use.
that’s really interesting. i’ll have to remember to google the freedom riders.
31 years old? I guess I should be proud she’s carrying on our Noble Caucasian Traditions.
But I’m not.
31 years old? Didn’t she learn about that shit in High-hell, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL? It would have taken two seconds on Google to research the Civil Rights Acts and realize that stuff is HIGHLY illegal, not to mention plain, flat-out racist. Cincinnati has always been notorious for racism, homophobia and Antisemitism (Marge Schott, the former owner of the Cincinnati Reds was forced out because she shot her mouth off about Jewish people and blacks) but come on now. That’s just dumb.
That stood out to me as well, how young this horrible woman is.
What the hell did she think was going to happen? That this guy was going to tell his ten-year-old, “Well, honey, the landlady says no black people in the pool, so you wanna get ice cream instead?”?
How does a person not understand that this is vile, and also illegal?
Cincinasty: Always one spark away from a race riot. That place is poison. I’m not saying other places are all that much better, but Cinci is a tough town for race relations.
“Cincinasty: Always one spark away from a race riot. That place is poison. I’m not saying other places are all that much better, but Cinci is a tough town for race relations.”
That’s unfortunate. I go to websites where people just trash anybody of color because they think they can as anon posters. What I am bothered by is the idea that there are people who follow stereotypes when judging people by skin color. I always laugh when said tards bring up welfare and blacks. The stats are clear on this matter, white trash (for the record I am white and I came from a poor background and worked hard to build a career and business) take far more of the public dole than anybody of color. What’s even funnier is that the biggest chunk of welfare is given in the form of subsidies to rich “job creators” yet nobody ever seems to get fired up about that. Yep, they rip on the black mother of 2 who gets public assistance and it costs virtually NOTHING to help her out.
God I hate where this country is headed. The youth need to get out and vote in 2012 and throw out anybody who is bringing this country down (tea baggers in particular have to go).
That is one of the lamest excuses I have ever heard.Can you imagine if someone decided to put up a flag in there front lawn, and it was a Nazi Swastica flag?
“But, argle bargle, umm, er, its historical! ”
Oh, wait, plenty of southerners and others already do that with Confederate flag.
Horrible.
I long for the day when Confederate flags are looked on with the same loathing as Nazi symbols, because they genuinely are equally repellent and equally immoral.
Seriously. One of my far-right sort-of relatives was going on during the whole mosque-in-New-York controversy about how it was a “slap in the face” to people who lost loved ones on 9/11, etc. I pointed out that she was dating a guy with a Confederate flag decal on his car, which is a symbol of hatred, treason, racism, torture, oppression, etc. And it’s worse than a mosque, because clearly only a small percentage of Muslims were behind the attacks, whereas one hundred percent of the Confederacy was in favor of secession in order to maintain slave owners’ — er, I’m sorry, “states’ rights.” She tried to use the “Oh, it’s historical” thing with me as well — “It was so long ago, who cares?” I said “Well, the people who keep flying the damn thing and putting it on their cars and hats and clothing and getting it as a tattoo obviously haven’t left it in the past.”
Here’s what I was talking about in my post above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Schott#Controversy
God, what an old, arrogant biddy. It’s amazing she kept the Cincinnati Reds as long as she did.
Um, I’m a white lady. I use chemicals on my hair. I don’t swim, so I don’t know if the various treatments I use on my hair in fruitless attempts to look stylish would make pool water cloudy. Here’s the thing. Her stupid racist sign doesn’t ask people regardless of race with god-knows-what in their hair to stay out of the pool.
Also? To Ms. Hein? Do other tenants’ white kids get to swim in the pool? Then non-white kids of tenants get to swim in the pool too, you racist twit. You don’t get to give different amenities based on race to people paying the same rent.
Do you swan around the apartment complex wearing a “historical” klan hood?
Asking everyone to wear a swim cap would have solved the problem nicely. But I doubt there was a problem, she was just determined to keep black people and their infamous hair products out of her sacred swimming pool.
As someone who swims and has taken care of pools, sunscreen is the quickest way to cloud up your pool. Bathing caps are a good idea for people with long hair because the hair can clog up the filtration — eventually. (Proper maintenance procedures would keep that from happening with or without a cap.)
Pee is not a serious contaminate. Chlorine takes care of that immediately. Nor are “hair chemicals.”
So the primary cauise of cloudiness is all those pasty white people who grease up with sunscreen everytime they go to the pool.
i’d like to see a sign that says “NO PASTY WHITES.”
Or just “No Pasties” if you’re trying to keep out the strippers. Or the savory Cornish pies.
HA!
Just because the sunlight reflecting off my husband’s torso has been known to blind people does not mean he should be banned from a public pool.
Maybe he should have to keep a T-shirt on, though, for safety’s sake.
“Soul Glow”. Blah-hahahahahahahahahahahaha!! That’s a blast from the past.
Thanks for the laughs ABL. You’ve got the jokes, the anger and the timing. Time for you to consider stand-up.
Ugh. This reminds me of a local shame from a few years back: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/archive/Pool-Boots-Kids-Who-Might-Change-the-Complexion.html
Heartbreaking for the kids. Just awful.
No excuse, none for this type of sh*t. And what Nefer said.
F**king a**holes.
Did you know that Tyler Perry ended up sending those kids to Disneyland? And thankfully that pool doesn’t exist anymore. I’m trying to figure out why this woman is still the landlord there. Does she own the building?
I wrote about that, actually. I thought it was a nice thing for Tyler Perry to do, but the nicer thing for him to do would be to stop making movies.
http://www.angryblacklady.com/2009/07/22/tyler-perry-please-go-away/
Thanks for the link, ABL. I do remember you writing about the Philly pool incident but I didn’t know where to find it. And sweet of Tyler Perry to take care of the kids.
The racism is oozing out so bad, it overrides common sense.
Was this some secret attention whoring cry for help?
I dont care, you know what fuck it…….just fucking say it, just unleash the damn thing
Can we please put up a board for when ni***r fly about, lets place some bets.
They’re going after the FLOTUS with gusto, going after the POTUS, you got these GOPers coming out the side of the mouth with coded racism, and just fucking say it, for the love of fucking god, I am getting sick of waiting for it, make me feel at ease, just say it.
How racist will shit gets without saying ni**er?
Are you sitting down?
Good. Because today the Minneapolis paper had an article about Memphis finally naming a street after Dr. King (after only 44 years) and the only comment is some racist dolt who gets in there and says, and I’m quoting here: “I have a dream that Obama loses in 2012.”
Sweet, huh? Memphis finally does the right fucking thing and all this horse’s ass can think of is to take Dr. King’s most famous phrase and do that.
retards behind a computer matters to me not.
I’m just waiting on some politician, some commentator, some prominent person to go “full retard” and show their true face
Can someone please contact this poor woman. Let’s give her a chance to recover her good name, prove she’s not racist and that this misfortunate epidsode is all about hair products. My black sons love swimming. I’d be willing to do a road trip to reunite this community and thus the nation.
My fellow white people are very ignorant. They like to call things “Historical” even though they refuse to acknowledge the Racist Historical reasons behind things such as these signs. The whole “I don’t hate black people” yet they insist that people should only stick with their “own”. If that a-hole Ron Paul gets elected people will have Free Range to do crap like this and much worse.
This could have been easily solved with a “Shower before you enter the pool” rule, which is pretty standard at any public pool. Enforcing such a rule would solve the problem, unless… Nah, couldn’t be that they were ACTUALLY racist? This is 2012 for Chrissakes.
i hope jamie hein dies of fucking cancer
Uneasy Neighbors in a Southern Gothic Tale
By KIM SEVERSON and ROBBIE BROWN
Published: January 12, 2012
LAURENS, S.C. — The Redneck Shop has been selling Confederate bikinis and white satin robes on the historic courthouse square in this former mill town for so long that most people have learned to ignore it.
“The only people who really get caught up and interested in the store are from out of town,” said Sharon Brownlee, the mayor, who is white. “The store causes no problems that I’m aware of.”
That is a matter of perspective. Since 1996, the Rev. David Kennedy, who is black, has been fighting the shop and the Ku Klux Klan leader who runs it.
Now, in a quirk of fate laced with lawsuits, religious conversions and a small-town Southern narrative Harper Lee might deliver, a black pastor will eventually control what just might be the most famous white supremacist shop in America.
Last month, a state circuit judge in Greenwood, S.C., decided that Pastor Kennedy’s tiny New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church held the valid title to the old Echo Theater, whose lobby the Redneck Shop occupies. It was handed over fair and square years earlier by an acolyte of John Howard, the Klan leader who founded the shop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/us/in-laurens-sc-the-redneck-shop-and-its-neighbor.html?pagewanted=2&hp
I love this story.
I also like the mayor who says the patrons of the store are from, “out of town.” Right. If I were opening a store of any kind, I’d be sure to put it where the customers AREN’T.
Hein is sorta like the dead mouse in the floorboard. She REALLY stinks bad at first notice, but in the passage of time when bacteria and age work their wonders, her funk will slowly dissipate. She may have have these backward views and now most everyone knows she has them, too. She may be a racist hag, but NOT an immortal one. She’ ll be a annoying cliff note in a chapter of a greater way for an enlightened nation
I LOVE your writing…you’re hysterical! Not only did I get the story but your personal commentary is hilarious. I used to live in a suburb on Cincinnati (moved from NY) and was amazed by the racism there. Definitely didn’t encounter obvious racism in NY…even the small town I was from. Happy to be back in NY! This lady can’t be reasoned with…can’t reason with crazy. :)
Thank you!
The lady was confused, and obviously of very low mental capacity. The pool gets cloudy due to the SPF suntan lotion that the white people use. She just couldn’t find an antique sign that excluded whites. You can’t blame her. We all know these Hillbillies interbreed!
Not racist….. Wow that is the understatement of the year, and I agree with the author of this article.. They said it best, in 2 words in the article..NINJA PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!