"Get Out": Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes
In Delano, Minnesota, a black family’s home was broken into in March 2017 and a warning was spray-painted on the walls: “Get out.”
The vandals left a note, too: “Next time it’s going to be fire.” In Athens, Tennessee, the white mother of young biracial children alleged that she’d been harassed verbally by a neighbor for a year. For close to two years, ProPublica has been compiling reports of hate crimes and bias incidents as part of our Documenting Hate project.
The database now houses a vast compendium of ugliness in America. Killings, assaults, threats of terror — they are all there.
One of the more common entries involves people being harassed or threatened at their place of residence, often by neighbors, the people who live next door or down the hall or around the corner. Of course, this isn’t new. The integration of neighborhoods in the U.S. has been as fraught as the integration of the country’s schools.
Jeannine Bell, a lawyer and author of “Hate Thy Neighbor: Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing,” said no corner of the country has any claim of immunity from the problem.
She also noted that the total number of such incidents is not reliably captured in any formal data set, ours or those kept by federal and local authorities.
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