Prejudice in the City by the Gay?

by Ich bin Ala-awkbarph Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:47 pm

Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area
Dec 30, 3:24 PM (ET)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081230/D95D896O0.html
By PAUL ELIAS

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on tenants in federally subsidized housing.

Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.

"A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live," said Karen Coleman, a mother of three who came here five years ago from a blighted neighborhood in nearby Pittsburg. "We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don't want us here."

City officials deny the allegations in the lawsuits, which were filed last spring and seek unspecified damages.

I guess that gays need to realize that being black haired and brown-eyed is a as normal as being you-know-what is claimed to be...however, BEING black is what you ARE--not what a person does.