Ohio landlord fights 'White Only' pool sign ruling
By LISA CORNWELL
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — A landlord found to have discriminated against a black girl by posting a "White Only" sign at a swimming pool wants a state civil rights commission to reconsider its decision.
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission found on Sept. 29 that Jamie Hein, who's white, violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by posting the sign at a pool at the duplex where the teenage girl was visiting her parents. The parents filed a discrimination charge with the commission and moved out of the duplex in the racially diverse city to "avoid subjecting their family to further humiliating treatment," the commission said in a release announcing its finding.
An investigation revealed that Hein in May posted on the gated entrance to the pool an iron sign that stated "Public Swimming Pool, White Only," the commission statement said.
Several witnesses confirmed that the sign was posted, and the landlord indicated that she posted it because the girl used in her hair chemicals that would make the pool "cloudy," according to the commission.
Hein, of Cincinnati, hung up when The Associated Press called her for comment Tuesday. A message was left at her lawyer's office.
The commission's statement said that its investigation concluded that the posting of such a sign "restricts the social interaction between Caucasians and African-Americans and reinforces discriminatory actions aimed at oppressing people of color."
Commissioners were scheduled to hear Hein's request for reconsideration at a meeting Thursday in Columbus, commission spokeswoman Brandi Martin said.
If the commissioners uphold their original finding, the case would be referred to the Ohio attorney general's office, which would represent the commission's findings before an administrative law judge, Martin said.
Penalties in the case could include a cease-and-desist order and even punitive damages, but the administrative law judge would determine any penalties, Martin said.
It still would be possible for the parties to reach a settlement before resorting to legal action, she said.
Any decision by the administrative judge could be appealed to Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, Martin said.
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I DON'T WANT ANY COMMENTS LIKE "OMG LOOK AT WHAT YEAR IT IS" OR "IS IT 1950 AGAIN??! THERE WAS NEVER A TIME IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA WHERE SOMEONE DID NOT DO SOMETHING OVERTLY RACIST.
By LISA CORNWELL
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — A landlord found to have discriminated against a black girl by posting a "White Only" sign at a swimming pool wants a state civil rights commission to reconsider its decision.
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission found on Sept. 29 that Jamie Hein, who's white, violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by posting the sign at a pool at the duplex where the teenage girl was visiting her parents. The parents filed a discrimination charge with the commission and moved out of the duplex in the racially diverse city to "avoid subjecting their family to further humiliating treatment," the commission said in a release announcing its finding.
An investigation revealed that Hein in May posted on the gated entrance to the pool an iron sign that stated "Public Swimming Pool, White Only," the commission statement said.
Several witnesses confirmed that the sign was posted, and the landlord indicated that she posted it because the girl used in her hair chemicals that would make the pool "cloudy," according to the commission.
Hein, of Cincinnati, hung up when The Associated Press called her for comment Tuesday. A message was left at her lawyer's office.
The commission's statement said that its investigation concluded that the posting of such a sign "restricts the social interaction between Caucasians and African-Americans and reinforces discriminatory actions aimed at oppressing people of color."
Commissioners were scheduled to hear Hein's request for reconsideration at a meeting Thursday in Columbus, commission spokeswoman Brandi Martin said.
If the commissioners uphold their original finding, the case would be referred to the Ohio attorney general's office, which would represent the commission's findings before an administrative law judge, Martin said.
Penalties in the case could include a cease-and-desist order and even punitive damages, but the administrative law judge would determine any penalties, Martin said.
It still would be possible for the parties to reach a settlement before resorting to legal action, she said.
Any decision by the administrative judge could be appealed to Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, Martin said.
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I DON'T WANT ANY COMMENTS LIKE "OMG LOOK AT WHAT YEAR IT IS" OR "IS IT 1950 AGAIN??! THERE WAS NEVER A TIME IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA WHERE SOMEONE DID NOT DO SOMETHING OVERTLY RACIST.
Oh.
Why would he possibly think the ruling would be changed at all?
I have so had it with sexist, racist, and homophobic shit this week. ARGH. *sets fire to everything*
Maybe we should just go ahead and saw Cincinnati's borders off to the north so it can officially become a part of Kentucky.
WAT
So I take it you're not chlorinating and sanitizing the fuck out of a public pool?
While your ass is in court for discrimination, can we also have the Health Department come down on you like a fuckload of bricks as well?
... so White girls/women don't have chemicals in their hair can make the pool "cloudy"? Because there are very few women that have chemical-free hair, including Black women. How in the fuck one person can make a big ass pool cloudy? You can piss in a pool and it won't even show up unless they have an urine detecting chemical in the pool. This is the biggest bullshit excuse I've been in a long, long time. Also, the asshole didn't learn about that country club that kicked out the mostly Black class a couple of years ago? Just say you don't want Black people swimming in the pool because fucking really.
I wish nothing but this to fuck this asshole over the rest of her life.
Because no other woman of any other race uses similar or any chemicals in their hair. Nope.
Edited at 2011-12-14 08:02 pm (UTC)
/You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch, realist, raging right now.
.... no time in any country in any time that would have been different.
people don't like what they don't know. it's humanity you need to critice, if you'Re going that way.
otherwise:
this is so low I wonder why nobody just took that landlord and told them their meaning. seriously, THAT sounds to be the bigger problem with the whole thing: it had to go to COURT for someone to take that sign down.
people don't like what they don't know. it's humanity you need to critice, if you'Re going that way.</i>
..................... k? But in the context of this post, it makes sense to talk about how overt racism has always existed in American history. And yes, humans fear the unknown, but, again, in this post we're talking about racism and how it affects black folks to this day.
hdu shatter my memories of childhood
I was a kid in the 90s and there was no racism in the 90s at all.
;_______________;
#toomuchsarcasmforonecomment
Sorry, the only way for me to get through this without crying is with heavy
doses of laughter.
It was either this, or a remark about how him and Herman Cain are secret lovers.
That's not even a joke. I truly believe they'd do it. The only thing that's changed these days is the level of impunity white people have, which used to be level 1000 but is now in the 800s.
i just thought that racisim was less, you know, totaly blatent. that people had gotten subtle. i also assumed that there were less racisits, or at least, that it was less hevely ingrained. you know what i mean, or not
but, whites only? reallllly?
disclamer: im not a yank. so i kinda just pick up what goes on over there thought news...
pretty sure during the interacial chruch post radiovolume told you how wrong you are so.