Fighting Prejudice With Purchase?
As mentioned August 22, 2006, in a previous post, the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch has a proposal pending to penalize local employers for hiring undocumented workers, and to penalize landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. This is viewed as racist by some people.
In response, some area Hispanic leaders have come up with an interesting proposal of their own. They are encouraging Latinos, here legally or not, to purchase each of the 157 homes currently available for sale in Farmers Branch, including the home of the City Councilman who made the original proposal.