Landlord Says She’s No Racist, She Just Doesn’t Want Black Folks in Pool

The landlord says she's not racist she just didn't want black hair products to get the pool water cloudy.

By Jorge Rivas Dec 16, 2011

 

A white Ohio landlord found to have discriminated against a black girl by posting a "Whites Only" sign at a swimming pool in her duplex says she’s not racist and wants the civil rights commission to reconsider its decision.

The landlord says she’s not racist, she just didn’t want the black girl’s hair products to make the pool water "cloudy."

More from the Associated Press:

The Ohio Civil Rights Commission found on Sept. 29 that Jamie Hein, who’s white, violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by posting the sign at a pool at the duplex where the teenage girl was visiting her parents. The parents filed a discrimination charge with the commission and moved out of the duplex in the racially diverse city to "avoid subjecting their family to further humiliating treatment," the commission said in a release announcing its finding.

An investigation revealed that Hein in May posted on the gated entrance to the pool an iron sign that stated "Public Swimming Pool, White Only," the commission statement said.

Several witnesses confirmed that the sign was posted, and the landlord indicated that she posted it because the girl used in her hair chemicals that would make the pool "cloudy," according to the commission.