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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Sat Oct 17, 2015, 01:58 AM Oct 2015

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North Texan Fights HOA To Fly Confederate Flag

October 16, 2015 7:30 PM
By J.D. Miles

... Confederate flags are on both sides of Evan Richards car. Another hangs behind his front window and the one on his garage keeps getting stolen. He says they are there to prove a point ... The 62-year-old says his affection for what many consider a racist symbol began over the summer when a mass shooting at a Charleston church reignited the controversy over it ... “This is both offensive and a violation,” says Lilly Tijerina, Harwood Courts Homeowner’s Association president ... The H.O.A. policy allows only U.S. or Texas flags along with military flags in this neighborhood ...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/10/16/north-texan-fights-hoa-to-fly-confederate-flag/

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North Texan Fights HOA To Fly Confederate Flag (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2015 OP

Wow. An HOA as a force of good? Recursion Oct 2015 #1

couldn't that decrease house values Skittles Oct 2015 #2

OK what is worse, confederate flag flying douchebag or HOA nazis? tularetom Oct 2015 #3

That area always seemed pretty conservative to me, and Euless isn't a big place struggle4progress Oct 2015 #4

spray with a bleach mist. Ilsa Oct 2015 #5

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

1. Wow. An HOA as a force of good?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 02:01 AM

Oct 2015

This is groundbreaking.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

2. couldn't that decrease house values

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 02:08 AM

Oct 2015

who wants to live around those kind of yahoos?

tularetom

(23,664 posts)

3. OK what is worse, confederate flag flying douchebag or HOA nazis?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 02:27 AM

Oct 2015

I'm sorry to say my opinion of HOA's is so low that I honestly could not answer that question.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)

4. That area always seemed pretty conservative to me, and Euless isn't a big place

Reply to tularetom (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 02:33 AM

Oct 2015

Moreover, it's 75% white and only about 5% african-american

So I was at least glad to learn locals weren't thrilled to see that rag flying

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

5. spray with a bleach mist.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 07:21 AM

Oct 2015

They'll fade out.

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