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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Wait… Aren’t you guys supposed to be the free-est nation on earth or something?

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      8 months ago

      We’re a country founded by slave owners who wrote things like “all men are created equal”

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      8 months ago

      HOAs were literally created to make sure that black people couldn’t buy homes. These covenants put legal blocks on the deed for eternity to keep it from happening. It didn’t take long for white people to buy a house and then turn around and sell it to a black family. The entire thing crashed. What we are left with are small Karens and Chads trying to control the people around them.

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        8 months ago

        Minorities in general. Some of the first HOAs excluded Blacks, Jews, Asians, etc in literal writing. It took a SCOTUS case to overturn.

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        8 months ago

        They also exist to make building a subdivision easier which is there primary purpose today.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          8 months ago

          You mistyped “allow municipalities to avoid their responsibilities and grant power to private shadow governments with storied histories of abuse and none of the hypothetical accountability that is guaranteed by the US Constitution”.