The Los Angeles Public Library’s catalog led me to a book by badass civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg (read it, it’s fabulous: Crusaders in the Courts, although it’s not the book I’m recommending). The other day I got the urge to read a little more about Thurgood Marshall. Constitution in 1948 to Prevent “The Threat of Occupancy by Negroes” → There’s far too much material to cover in one post, so we’re going to lay it on you in increments, starting today with some background and a shocking episode from the long hot summer of 1948.Ĭontinue reading HPOA Precursor Organization and Former Employer of Kerry Morrison California Real Estate Association Sought to Warp, Pervert, and Destroy U.S. Our minds were well and truly blown by what he discovered, and perhaps yours will be too. So we sent our faithful correspondent out onto the wild uncharted moors of scholarlandia through the portals of Google scholar, JSTOR, and UCLA.
Thus, we thought, it might be illuminating to understand the professional crucible in which that image was forged. Kerry, as the first and sole director of the HPOA since 1996, has clearly formed and molded that organization in her own image. 2Ĭalifornia real estate agents have done far, far more to shape this state for evil and for good than is commonly acknowledged in popular discourse. Note, by the way, that the California Association of REALTORS ® was formerly known as the California Real Estate Association. In any case, we resolved to discover just for whom it was that Kerry had spent 14 years working for prior to the BID and why it seemed so important to her to include this in her biosnippet. Kerry Morrison, late of the California Association of REALTORS®, formerly known as the California Real Estate Association, an immensely influential Twentieth Century California white supremacist group, sitting extraordinarily close to some guy whose name we don’t know.While poking around in the bowels and hidden bits of the HPOA’s website recently, we happened to notice, in friend Kerry Morrison’s bio, the following intriguing statement: “Prior to coming to Hollywood, she spent 14 years in public policy and senior management roles at the California Association of REALTORS in Los Angeles.” Maybe it was the ALL-CAPS that caught our eye, so weirdly dystypographical and yet so clearly intentional, 1 or maybe something else.