Post by pavel on Apr 3, 2016 15:45:57 GMT -6
TUPELO, Miss. — A Mississippi RV park owner admits evicting an interracial couple in late February because of the color of the husband's skin.
“Me and my husband, not ever in 10 years have we experienced any problem,” said Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is Hispanic and Native American and whose husband, a National Guardsman, is African-American. “Nobody’s given us dirty looks. This is our first time.”
More than a half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination on the basis of race, Gene Baker acknowledged asking the interracial couple to leave his RV park in Tupelo.
Baker, who lives in Aberdeen, said Thursday he only did it because “the neighbors were giving me such a problem.”
Read more: www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/04/03/mississippi-interracial-couple-evicted-over-race/82584514/
“Me and my husband, not ever in 10 years have we experienced any problem,” said Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is Hispanic and Native American and whose husband, a National Guardsman, is African-American. “Nobody’s given us dirty looks. This is our first time.”
More than a half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination on the basis of race, Gene Baker acknowledged asking the interracial couple to leave his RV park in Tupelo.
Baker, who lives in Aberdeen, said Thursday he only did it because “the neighbors were giving me such a problem.”
Read more: www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/04/03/mississippi-interracial-couple-evicted-over-race/82584514/