Monday, July 11, 2005

Housing restrictions on TV

When I first saw the ads for ABC's summer reality show "Welcome to the Neighborhood", I couldn't help thinking about the restrictive clauses in housing contracts people used to keep blacks and other undesirables out of their neighborhoods (an indication of how much US history I've been doing the past couple of years, as well as being in the middle of this great book: Arc of Justice). I guess I wasn't the only one: Protests Make 'Neighborhood' Unwelcome at ABC.

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