There are no fair-minded readers of these forums.hedge wrote:No fair-minded reader of these forums would ever mistake me for a champion of the status quo...
My sole, interesting-only-to-me comment on the topic:
I once had an office in a house on "Sugar Hill" in Los Angeles. The building is owned by the church where I started my ministry and served as youth pastor 20+ years ago. It is also the former home of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar (for her role as "Mammy" in GWTW).
The neighborhood was being integrated by well-to-do blacks in the 40s, but because of restrictive covenants (neighborhood didn't allow non-Caucasians), McDaniel (and other black Hollywood types like Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) had a years-long court battle, which they eventually won.
Hattie bought the house in 1938 for $15K (17 rooms, 4 bedrooms, full basement, Olympic sized pool, caretakers cottage in the back). The church bought it for $45K in the 1970s. The church had to restore the house in the early 90s to Historical Register standards - at a cost north of $800K.