Actually it looks like it went to the governor on September 8, so it has not yet been signed and probably wouldn’t go into effect until January. Here’s the Bee article:

http://www.sacbee.com/content/homes/re_news/story/13553680p-14394400c.html

(My house is pre-1925 and does not have them, though. In fact the first owner of my house was African-American. It is mostly houses from slightly later developments — around World War II — that have the awful CC&Rs.)

Good, because your case is overworked with no backpay.

You are dealing with legal/historical documents. You can’t just “white out” [*insert pun here*] the section that offends you. You would scrap the entire document because it had “racist overtones” and not submit it? So you want to burn the constitution of the United States? You’d scrap that document like an old used tissue? Hey- I got no problem being called a racist, but when you want to BURN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES I gotta REAL problem with that. You constitutionalist!

Hmm. Somehow that just doesn’t sound as good as calling someone a racist. I guess I’m not as immune to the faux social pressures of political correctness as I thought. Maybe if the constitution was scratched into the mud with sticks by a couple of… WHOA WHOA WHOA- YOU just STOP what you were thinking right there. Racist. I rest my case.

I agree, order does not make a difference. My point was that this clause was clear as day, and yet they still submitted the document. When you submit a document which, as its first clause, takes the Ku Klux Klan approach to neighborhood development, I think you deserve every ounce of fire that comes your way, whether you believe in it or not.

I simply find it hard to believe that someone in Franklin decided that this document, with its explicitly racist overtones, was an appropriate submission to any regulating body, and that Clause 1 will simply be overlooked.

2) In response to:

“Franklin’s residents submitted the list of CC&Rs, that included Clause 1. If it was like Clause 56.4b, I could see how they missed to exclude it. But it was the first one on the page. You don’t leave an obvious clause like that in a submission by accident.”

You don’t get to select the CCRs to submit. You submit em as they are written, and argue the appropriate ones. Order makes no difference (we wouldn’t be hearing this story if the race one was #56?). But you gotta submit em all.

3) Burgers: I’m going with a tie between Willys Burgers off Broadway & 15th-ish and Tahoe Drive Thru on 14th Ave & 60th=ish for number one. Fords as #2. Grover & Gonzo taste about the same- close enought that I belive that they are of the same phylum.

1. that Grover and Gonzo are the same type of being. They are *clearly not* of the same species.
2. that Ford’s is the best hamburger joint in Sacto. For $12 I’ll take a cheap steak at Denny’s.
3. that the Angels fan who hit Reggie Sanders with a plastic bat during the ‘02 World Series should not be on death row.

http://sacrag.com/blog/archives/articles/001671.html
http://sacrag.com/blog/archives/articles/001680.html#c13646

Sorry you feel so traumatized by accusations of racism. If it makes you feel any better, I get bigotted slurs thrown at me from time to time from all races. So, I know racism when I see it, and despite what the “idiot blacks” call you, I don’t think you’re racist.

What do I win!!!

Hey- FOOLS! ANYONE who lives in a tract home ANYWHERE in the US that was developed before 1925ish HAS THAT SAME CLAUSE. It’s nothing to get upset about now. AND the neighbors are not trying to enforce that clause. Live in an old home? GO the to county assessor’s office and look up your old CC&Rs. If your home ever had CCRs, and the CCRs are pre 1930, I’ll eat my hat if you DON’T have the clause in there. You ALL got the same or similar clause in there. I guess you are ALL RACISTS, huh?

“Once a boy enjoyed yelling WOLF when there was none, just to see the villagers scramble to protect their flocks of sheep. Then one day, the boy really DID see a wolf, but no one belived him. All the sheep were killed.”

And so it goes with racism. I’ve been called racist often enough that, when I would have called the cops on ANY purple, green, white, yellow or black crackhead in my front lawn, I’ve realized that the only people screaming racism are people upset at a white person. A hispanic never accuses a black guy of racism.

Of course, unless it’s Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton doing the screaming, every time I hear “Racism” I’ve tuned my white ears off. Naturally, who can blame me if I miss a REAL instance, but I’m no longer going to jump up just because some black idiot sees “racism” in the face of whitey.