Bottom Line – Reporting An Ongoing Hate Crime/Incident!

This resource was supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library via California Black Media as part of the Stop the Hate program. The program is supported by partnership with the California Department of Social Services and the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. To report a hate incident or hate crime and get support, go to https://www.cavshate.org/

The California Attorney General’s Office, in 1968, issued a report titled; Palm Springs Section 14 Demolition. The final paragraph of that document is reprinted here…

“The City of Palm Springs not only disregarded the residents of Section 14 as property-owners, taxpayers, and voters. Palm Springs ignored that the residents of Section 14 were human beings.”

The Civil Rights Act was in effect… And yet, the ‘City engineered holocaust’, as described by the AG’s Report, was classified as not illegal, and allowed to continue terrorizing the surviving Section 14 victims and descendants… Section 14’s homes and personal belongings, were not the only things devastated by the fire! People were devastated… But people were not only devastated by the fire, they were, in many cases, most devastated by the blatant hateful racism that it takes to treat people as non-human!
The painful effects of institutional racism go deeper and last longer than that human to human kind of misunderstanding… Institutional racism is terrorizing because it is considered legal! However, sometimes mistakes are made and a crack is created in the institutional racism shield…
The City of Palm Springs recently offered 4 plus million dollars to the ‘Survivors of Section 14’, an organization representing the 300 plus families and their 1200 plus members, an offer which was refused! I think that the offer was/is an insult, and that the city having enough distain for the survivors to make such a stand is another example of the ongoing hate crime being perpetrated on the surviving victims of the “City engineered holocaust”, the demolition of Palm Springs Section 14!
The coordinated actions designed to take property legally through eminent domain is painful enough. But even worse was the City choosing to hatefully, just snatch the land from underneath its owners ignoring their humanity!
I will be reporting this hate crime via the Stop The Hate recommended method and I will report more regarding the victims as I get back to you next week!
This resource was supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library via California Black Media as part of the Stop the Hate Program. The program is supported by partnership with California Department of Social Services and the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs as part of the Stop the Hate program. To report a hate incident or hate crime and get support, 833-8-NO-HATE 833-866-4283
Listen to Empire Talks Back radio Host, Wallace Allen interview Attorney Areva Martin and Pearl Devers, founder of the ‘Palm Springs Survivors of Section 14’,
The Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors are victims of what the 1968 report from the California Attorney General’s Office describes as “A city engineered holocaust”, as an estimated 200 African American homes were burned, bulldozed… Demolished in the city of Palm Springs by the Palm Springs Fire Department. As community organizations and government entities across the state participate in “Unite Against The Hate” activities, beginning September 21st, we think that it is important to point out that as we voice our distain for hate, our government institutions are in some places still defending it!
As partners in the CA vs Hate Program, what are the Attorney General, the Civil Rights Division, and the Department of Social Services doing about the plight of the Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors of the “City engineered Holocaust”?

Author: WSS News