{"id":5742,"date":"2008-12-07T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2008-12-07T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:24:28","slug":"from-the-white-house-to-whites-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5742","title":{"rendered":"From the White House to Whites-Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

When George W. Bush leaves the White House, he won’t be going back to his beloved Crawford ranch. I mean, come on, like he’s going back to his Potemkin farm to clear brush! No, Dubya’s moving into an exclusive Dallas neighborhood. How exclusive? Well, they once didn’t allow non-whites to live there (unless they were the help). But heck, that was long, long ago\u00a0— they changed that covenant all the way back in 2000<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Until 2000, the neighborhood association’s covenant said only white people were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants.<\/p>\n

Enacted in 1956, part of the original document reads: “Said property shall be used and occupied by white persons except those shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of different race or nationality in the employ of a tenant.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Classy, huh? I suppose we’re being unfair; I mean, the community changed its covenants eight whole years ago<\/em>. That’s so far back that some chucklehead\u00a0named George W. Bush was Governor of Texas! Ancient history, right?<\/p>\n

It is interesting symbolism, to say the least. As our nation prepares to inaugurate the first African-American president in our nation’s history, our current president is preparing to move to a neighborhood that wouldn’t allow Barack Obama to live there — save as a servant — within the last decade. Although that isn’t keeping the riff-raff out — I mean, an alcoholic loser is moving in, right next door, in just a month or so.<\/p>\n

Seems to me they all deserve each other.<\/p>\n

(Via Pam<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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