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Resort That Refused Black Family Pool Access Must Pay
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| 8/11/05
Posted on 08/11/2005 11:55:37 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Good ...gump! Turn the clock back 50 years, ydoncha? Idiot. I guess there will always be atavistic Neanderthals among us like this hotel manager. Too bad that the reunion was already planned. This fine family was already locked in and could not just walk away with their dollars in their pockets. Who needs or wants to be around such jerks as those who own and manage this hotel anyhow?
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:36:40 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Pray daily for our troops...)
To: Dolphan
I'm gonna get nailed for this but...private property owners should be allowed to restrict/admit whoever they please onto all or any of their property........
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Not if they use the property in any publicly commercial way, such as renting.
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:37:46 PM PDT
by
wtc911
(see my profile for how to contribute to a pentagon heroes fund)
To: Responsibility1st
If it wasn't race related or they had any sort of a leg to stand on, why did they lose the case? Bad Lawyering?
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:38:40 PM PDT
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: LexBaird
Absolutely. Let the market decide.
About 10 years ago, a white couple attempted to rent a garage apartment from a black woman, who refused to rent to them because of their race.
She flat out told them that she didn't want to rent to white people.
Well, the couple got their panties in a wad over it and filed a suit. Of course, the black lady lost. A court decided that she had to rent to them even though it was HER garage attached to HER house on HER property.
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:38:44 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Political Correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism)
To: mhking
What a jerk! Glad the family won.
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:40:07 PM PDT
by
najida
(I officially have a home-- ~~sigh~~ with ice cubes even.)
To: TheForceOfOne
"I wouldn't climb in a public pool if you paid me."
True, you'd be shocked how many kids are too lazy to get out of a pool to use the restroom to urinate. Facts can be ugly. Chlorine, it's your best friend.
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:42:17 PM PDT
by
SunnySide
(Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
To: Responsibility1st
I meant to ask why they settled if they had a case. A countersuit for the cost of the lawyers and legal fees would seemed to have been in order in they had a leg to stand on.
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:43:01 PM PDT
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: ClaireSolt
"I am amazed that they didn't call police at the time."
It seems as though they didn't know the reason for the pool being closed. Sounds as though one or more of them suspected racism and went back day after check out to see if the pool was re-opened. Looks like they were right.
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:45:09 PM PDT
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: untrained skeptic
" I'd like to hear the other side of this story, if there is another side."
I *imagine* that the court that ruled in the family's favor heard the hotel manager's side...
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:47:19 PM PDT
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: Dolphan
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:47:43 PM PDT
by
Mulch
(tm)
To: netmilsmom
What's wrong with the family using the pool? I guess he didnt wan't their blackness to come off in the water,
To: Dolphan
I'm gonna get nailed for this but...private property owners should be allowed to restrict/admit whoever they please onto all or any of their property. You're not gonna be nailed by me. Par for the course for you. But I do have a question.
Why did this resort take these family members' money, then turned around and denied them access to all amenities at that resort?
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posted on
08/11/2005 1:59:44 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(With my own Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix never sounded so good...)
To: rdb3
Thats a good point. If there was an exchange of money for service then he was legally and contractually bound to provide all services that any other paying guests would receive.
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posted on
08/11/2005 2:06:22 PM PDT
by
Mulch
(tm)
To: Mulch
If there was an exchange of money for service then he was legally and contractually bound to provide all services that any other paying guests would receive.And since this was the case, the race issue is a sideshow. What we have here is a clear breach of contract, unless that contract specifically denied these family members access to the pool. I highly doubt that it did.
Private property rights is also a sideshow. It's a clear breach of contract. No matter where one comes down on race, this is a bad business practice. That should be vociferously condemned by all of us.
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posted on
08/11/2005 2:19:49 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(With my own Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix never sounded so good...)
To: Dolphan
Just exercising my personal property rights and right to freedom of association. I'm sure you will understand. Buh bye.
To: rdb3
Hey welcome back - hope you're on the mend!
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posted on
08/11/2005 2:23:22 PM PDT
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
To: rdb3
In this particular case, I would say you're right that it was a clear violation of an implied contract between the business owner and the customer.
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posted on
08/11/2005 2:24:47 PM PDT
by
Mulch
(tm)
To: Dolphan
Dolphan aka Shaq ONeal, Guillermo II, Guillermo, et al, banned.
To: rdb3
And since this was the case, the race issue is a sideshow. What we have here is a clear breach of contract, unless that contract specifically denied these family members access to the pool. I highly doubt that it did. Now THAT'S a good argument.
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posted on
08/11/2005 2:28:18 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
To: LexBaird
-I'd like to keep clueless idiots off my property but they blend in with all the others.
-But then, where would you live?
Got me, LexBaird. I owe you one.
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posted on
08/11/2005 2:28:58 PM PDT
by
BootsOnTheGround
(A free America is the World's only hope.)
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