I don’t think the city should rule on this, because they are setting themselves up for a lawsuit—but if subdivisions and neighborhoods want to set up HOAs (home owner associations) and determine what colors are allowed, more power to ‘em. It is quite disconcerting to be traveling through a nice neighborhood and come upon a house painted in bright neon colors—personally, we wouldn’t look for a home in that neighborhood because we’d be worried about the neighbors being as loud and rowdy as their housepaint! ;-)
This is really easy. These people are illegal criminals. They have no rights.
This is said, mind you, by a woman who doesn't approve of profiling.
Wouldn't they see, "rojo"?
“Hispanic leaders say it’s yet another effort to target Latinos in the city.”
Now who’s promoting racial stereotypes?
By their reasoning it could be argued that people who paint their houses bizarre colors are the racists as this tends to drive away whites.
If you don’t like my choice of color for MY home, then BUY it and paint it whatever color you wish. Otherwise, just don’t look at it.
Attitudes like what you appear to be espousing are what lead to bylaws where I have to apply for permission from the town to cut down MY trees on MY property. I WASTED 4 months this summer waiting for the township to approve my app to remove trees that were threatening both my house AND my neighbor’s. Then the tree police gave me grief for taking so long to apply!
I lost my place in line for the sawmill AND the roofer because the town took so long to finally inspect my trees.
Now I sit here with a yard full of 11 foot logs, and a leaking roof because someone decided that they didn’t like property owners dealing with their own property.
Oh, I have to apply for a permit from the town to replace my roof, too.
Unintended consequences is the term, FRiend. Be careful what you wish for, as you just might get it in the end...
Clown Houses should all be painted the same color.....
There was a huge controversy in San Antonio several years ago when Sandra Cisneros painted her house purple. How’d you like to live next door to one of those? What these people are saying is, “We don’t give a damn how we relate to our pinche gringo neighbors. They have to adjust to us, we don’t have to adjust to them.” See my tagline.
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Why don’t we just pass a law officially stating that Hispanics are above the law. They can drive drunk, be in the country illegally, use fake documents, whatever they want to do. Everyone else may have to obey the law, but they simply do not. That’s what “Hispanic groups” want, advocate and insist upon, and what Hispanderers are eager to grant them. Might as well just get it over with.
” said Elizabeth Villafranca, whose family owns a Mexican restaurant in Farmers Branch. “We all know who paints their homes tropical colors.”
If by “tropical” she means the color of those big ugly parrots she could be correct. Bright red,yellow, and blue.
So-called “Hispanic groups” want:
1. A set of laws that apply to them, and a different set for native born and legal immigrants.
2. They get to do, act, and whatever as much as they damn well please and anyone that disagrees with them is “racist”, “xenophobic”, “mean”, and “not open to multiculturalism and diversity”.
3. They get to take over wherever they please and the hell with everyone else.
4. They will get in everyone’s face, “protest”, “strike”, stamp there feet, hold their breath until they turn blue, turn out en masse with their non-US flags, “boycott” and in general make pains of themselves until they get their way like the spoiled brats they are.
5. They have no intention of learning English or remotely integrating into American culture like the millions of L-E-G-A-L immigrants did 100-some years ago or like L-E-G-A-L immigrants do today that are proud of the USA and proud to become A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-S.
6. They want to make the USA into Mexico North by any way or means available.
If they don’t like the rules here, they should leave. The USA is not Mexico or wherever. Not yet, anyway.
I think this falls in the same category as typical zoning regulations. Some regulations are create to protect property rights. If your next door neighbor chooses a paint scheme that looks like a circus, it will definitely have an impact on your property value...likely a negative impact. The same applies to leaving junk cars on the front lawn, lawns overgrown with weeds or covered with garbage.
Sounds like Elizabeth is making fun of Black folks.
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