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Loathsome, yes, but evil? Or just fucking stupid?
In the Year of Somebody's Lord 2011, how exactly does this count as acceptable behavior?
An Ohio landlord accused of discriminating against an African-American girl with a "white only" sign at her swimming pool told ABCNews.com that the sign was an antique and a decoration.
"I'm not a bad person," said Jamie Hein of Cincinnati. "I don't have any problem with race at all. It's a historical sign."
You see, Ms. Hain is a collector, a budding historical conservator, an historian, even. I'm expecting Freddie Mac to offer her a job any day now.
Hanging a Jim Crow-era sign on the fence around her swimming pool was simply an homage to days gone by. And her refusal to let the daughter of one her African American tenants use the pool because the girl's hair product made the water "cloudy" wasn't a comment about black people. It was, um, a reenactment. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Besides, even if Ms. Hain had harbored any motivation other than a desire to save the planet by reducing her use of chlorine, she has rights, too, you know.
"If I have to stick up for my white rights, I have to stick up for my white rights. It goes both ways."
Yes, Ms. Hain, sometimes it does go both ways. Sometimes you can be evil and fucking stupid.
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