Home for sale, 3 br, 2bath, garage, and few black people

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:17 pm

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3271357#2005

Utah developer pulls racial data from site
A selling point? Eagle Mountain was touted as having a lower percentage of blacks than the rest of the state
By Matt Canham
The Salt Lake Tribune

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# View a snapshot of the original bigghomes.com site, taken December 1, 2005.

Eagle Mountain is a burgeoning Utah County community, full of young families, new homeowners and white people.
Lots and lots of white people.
The racial breakdown of Eagle Mountain was listed as a selling point on the Web site of home builder Bigg Homes.
The site also included this comparison among others: "Black race population percentage significantly below state average."
"Significantly below" was in bold.
David Adams, co-owner of Bigg Homes, removed the racial information from the site after being contacted by The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday.
"We apologize if that offended anybody. It wasn't our intention," he said. "Frankly, it is offensive to me, too."
Adams said the information didn't come from his company.
A Web designer contracted to build the Bigg Homes site copied information from another Internet address, http://www.city-data.com, according to Adams. The information in almost the exact same format does appear on city-data.com.
"We noticed it immediately," Adams said. "We asked him to remove it."
That was two months ago.
"It wasn't done. It's done now," he said.
Adams is "considering" firing the Web designer. He refused to identify that man or the company he works for.
Jeanetta Williams, president of the NAACP branch in Salt Lake City, described the information as "subtle discrimination," meant to encourage white people and discourage black people from buying in the area.
Salt Lake-area real estate agent Babs De Lay said that in general, highlighting statistics about protected groups

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such as racial minorities is beyond unethical.
"That is discriminatory," said De Lay, who recently attended a conference for realtors on federal fair housing laws. "That is definitely wrong."
The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal "To make, print, or publish . . . any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin."
Bigg Homes, a division of EM Holdings, which also owns Tuscany Homes, had its grand opening on Oct. 1 and has since sold 60 houses that are still under construction.
The Web site for Tuscany Homes does not include any statistical information about Eagle Mountain or any other area the company sells in.
Black residents in Eagle Mountain, like in the rest of Utah, are rare. According to 2000 Census data, Eagle Mountain is 0.6 percent black. Utah as a whole is about 1.3 percent black based on 2004 Census estimates.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:03 pm

New Orleans

Population: Nigger

Post by **Martrae** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:04 pm

Not so much anymore.

I'm betting it'll be a low crime area for a while, too. Most of the welfare people aren't coming back.

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:13 pm

They could be in for a huge lawsuit if the ACLU decided to sue.

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:26 pm

New Orleans just had its first murder since Katrina. There wasnt a single murder for like, 2 months in orleans parish. That has to be a record.

On topic. Im not surprised. This state is full of this weird fundie/cultist/shitkicker/mountainman/aryanpure/neo-con type. Infested with them. Thank god we live in the one blue dot in the whole state and can mostly avoid the local fucktards.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:32 pm

The Kizzy wrote:They could be in for a huge lawsuit if the ACLU decided to sue.

what could they possibly be sued for?

accurately reporting the percentage of races who live in the area?
It's not like they posted :BLACK 2%, non-black 98%

they broke down all the ethnicities

if the black community wants to get up in arms about it, fuck them
they're the racist fuckers now

Jesus · Post by **Jesus** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:40 pm

Its illegal according to Fair Housing Laws.

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:46 am

so a state full of conservative religous small minded honkies wanted to make money advertising that their particular area of town was even more white conservative and honky than another.....

that is a big fucking shocker

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:31 pm

I'm sorry but I think they are onto something.

Here in Irvine we have no black people. I think if a black person wants to come here they have to be fitted with a GPS dog collar so they are easier to catch when they start committing crime. We also have very few mexicans and they all work at the carwash under tight supervision... because of this there is really no crime at all here, except when I'm doing 140 on the toll roads in my infiniti.

Spliffs · Post by **Spliffs** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:57 am

Political correctness blows. People should face the fact that a large portion of black and white people don't like a large portion of the other race.

I'm not racist by default. I give any black person a fair shake, but being aware of the way many of them are, I'd move to a place inhabited by fewer of them. I appreciate this company being forthright! I don't want to do the research on how to get away from gang bangers myself!

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:28 am

Spliffs wrote:I'm not racist by default.

This statement is not accurate.

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:52 am

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:54 am

good ole north dakota!~

Eziekial · Post by **Eziekial** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:18 am

No one lives there. I think it should be ok to publish statistical data on race, religion, whatever. I really don't care. If someone else has a problem with it, don't buy a house in that area. What is the problem here?

Spliffs · Post by **Spliffs** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:11 pm

Zanchief Returns wrote:
Spliffs wrote:I'm not racist by default.

This statement is not accurate.

You're right, I'm racist.

I do like some black people though - they just tend to be the ones who act like white people.

Donnel · Post by **Donnel** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:17 am

Jesus wrote:Its illegal according to Fair Housing Laws.

You can't even steer a couple to an ethnic community if they ASK you where the "fill in the blanks" live.

Eziekial · Post by **Eziekial** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:33 pm

[quote="captain_insano"]We also have very few mexicans and they all work at the carwash under tight supervision... because of this there is really no crime at all here, except when I'm doing 140 on the toll roads in my infiniti.[/quote]

I got up to 140 Friday night on I-95 and felt like a criminal :umno:

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:56 pm

Minrott wrote:

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:39 pm

Dem nigras shure do like dem crimez!

No honestly... Is anyone surprised? Black people glorify committing crime. Hell they love it. It's like baseball to them...a national past time.

If there was a way to ship the prisons back to Africa I would say do it in a heart beat. Another dandy option is just to put all black babies in prison to start and then let them out on good behavior.

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:32 pm

In high school we used to say we were going to promise a trip back to Africa to see their kin and when the boat hits middle of the Atlantic, drop the bottom out

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:45 pm

captain_insano wrote:I'm sorry but I think they are onto something.

Here in Irvine we have no black people. I think if a black person wants to come here they have to be fitted with a GPS dog collar so they are easier to catch when they start committing crime. We also have very few mexicans and they all work at the carwash under tight supervision... because of this there is really no crime at all here, except when I'm doing 140 on the toll roads in my infiniti.

I want this guy elected King of the Universe and put to work tonight. I shit you not.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:15 am

Gaazy wrote:In high school we used to say we were going to promise a trip back to Africa to see their kin and when the boat hits middle of the Atlantic, drop the bottom out

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